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Working: Is it Really Possible to Build Up Your "Idea Muscle?

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s episode of Working Overtime, hosts June Thomas and Isaac Butler mull over James Altucher’s habit of creating 10 new ideas every day. Altucher’s theory is that the simple act of generating a list can build a strong creative routine. The hosts put this theory to the test and while Isaac remained skeptical, June had a surprising result.  Do you have a question about creative work? Leave a message at (304) 933-9675 or email us at working@slate.com.    Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cameron Drews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Working Over Time, the advice-focused Better Call Saul to regular workings breaking bad, I'm Isaac Butler.

1:26.0

And I'm June Thomas. Isaac, how would you rate your creativity level in the last month?

1:33.0

I mean, I've been working overtime creatively, frankly. I did this four-part lecture series at a school, so I was doing four 90-minute lectures on the one every Friday.

1:43.0

Wow.

1:44.0

And I wrote a book proposal that I'm currently revising.

1:47.0

So I think that's pretty good, you know?

1:50.0

Yeah.

1:51.0

What about you, June? How's deadlines going?

1:53.0

And what are we talking about today?

1:55.0

Let's talk about what we're talking about today. Those are our choices of topics.

1:59.0

So, earlier this year, I read a book by James Altucker.

2:05.0

It's called Skip the Line, the 10,000 Experiments Rule and other surprising advice for reaching your goals.

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