Stream this episode of the Kaizen Creativity Podcast below or listen on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Listen Online Steve Martin is one of my all-time favorite creative people. What makes him so special is that he somehow managed to rebel against a group of comedians who were themselves in a rebellion.
How often do you sit down and allow your imagination to run wild? Using my imagination is one of my favorite parts of the creative process. When I write comedy, I spend very little time actually touching the keyboard. The vast majority of my time writing is spend playing around with ideas in my imagination.
There are two components to every creative idea: Usefulness and uniqueness. Both can be gray areas for people. What makes something useful is subjective. What’s useful to me isn’t necessarily useful to another person. Artwork is a great example. While I recognize that abstract forms of art are highly valued by some people, I can’t