The Routine Habits of Breakthrough Thinkers, with Jeremy Utley

Afford Anything

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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#410: You face plenty of problems. But you have a scarcity of good solutions. Stanford Professor Jeremy Utley can help. He says that solving complex problems requires creativity. And creativity comes from deliberate practice. It’s not an innate talent. It’s a skill. And it’s useful in any occupation, from accounting to zookeeping. Jeremy speaks and writes on the history of invention, discovery, creativity, and innovation. He also leads Stanford d.school's work with professionals. Today he talks to us about how some of the greatest innovators produce new ideas. He tells us about their creative process. He describes how researchers and authors improve their skills. And he shares pointers to help you understand how to do the same. Timing of discussion points as per November 2022: 3:00: How to focus while staying open to creativity 6:23: Definition of creativity 14:02: Different cognitive biases faced 17:35: The idea quota 19:28: Where ideas come from: the Lego analogy 21:32: How Ben Franklin honed his creativity 28:36: Capturing inspiration 46:04: The importance of reviewing the problems in your life 50:24: The roles of creative collaboration and distributed reasoning 54:49: The argument for quantity over quality 56:07: The value of bad ideas For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode410 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can afford anything, just not everything.
0:11.8	Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just
0:14.8	apply to your money.
0:16.0	That applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention to any limited resource
0:20.9	that you need to manage.
0:22.4	And that opens up two questions.
0:24.2	First, what matters most?
0:25.6	And second, how do you align your priorities around?
0:29.4	Which matters most?
0:31.3	Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice.
0:34.0	And that's what this podcast is here to explore and facilitate.
0:37.4	My name is Paula Pat.
0:38.4	I am the host of the Affordable Care Podcast.
0:40.8	And the truth is that for every good idea, there are a thousand bad ones and sometimes
0:47.2	it can be hard to tell the difference.
0:48.8	That's a quote that comes from Mark Randolph, the co-founder of Netflix.
0:53.2	And it is the theme of today's episode.
0:56.9	No matter what type of work you're in, whether you are an entrepreneur, an executive, the
1:03.9	owner of a lawn care company, human resources for a stroller manufacturer, whatever it is
1:10.4	that you do, you stand out when you bring creativity to your practice.
1:17.1	Even if you are in a field that isn't traditionally thought of as a creative field, creativity
1:25.5	at its heart is the craft of problem solving.
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