Category Archives: Creative Process

How Negative Moods Affect Focus and Creativity

Your brain has a really awesome survival feature. Whenever you are in a positive mood, your brain will widen your focus, but whenever you’re in a negative mood, your brain will automatically narrow your focus. This allows it to focus on any threats or problems your facing. It’s a cool survival instinct that’s built into

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3 Ways Busy Schedules Kill Creativity

3 ways that busy schedules kill creativity. Learn how busy schedules effect the creative process and how to live a happier, more creative life by taking control of your schedule.

The World’s Most Fascinating Creative Problem: How AI Safety Researchers Are Avoiding a Robot Apocalypse

In the last episode, I introduced you to how AI research sheds new light on our creative process. If you haven’t already listened to it, I recommend checking it out before listening to this episode.  To give you a short recap: For an AI to function, it needs to know A) What options it has

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Creativity In AI: What Creative People Can Learn From Artificial Intelligence

This is going to be my first 2-part series on the show. This week, I’ll introduce you to the field of creative AI’s. We’ll learn how we program AI’s to be creative, and how we can apply that knowledge to our own creativity. Next week, I’ll share with you a really interesting problem that AI

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How Personal Values Shape Our Creativity

Your personal values shape every aspect of your creativity, from the industry you find yourself in, to the problems you try to solve, the way you try to solve them, and how you try to market them.  Today were we talking about how your personal values influence your creativity. This episode, it’s gonna be you’re

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Find Creative Inspiration – How Sensitivity & Problem Discovery Lead to Innovation

Creative people are sensitive to problems, but that’s a good thing. Most people are confronted with a problem and they choose to ignore it. Others have smaller problems that they don’t even consciously recognize are problems.  Creativity thrives when there are problems. They guide our creative behavior. They teach us what we need to do.

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Creativity Without Stress: How To Create Without Worrying

Ideas don’t pop into our heads fully formed and ready to launch. The process from initial idea to a finished product worthy of other people’s attention can be a long one.  Each idea develops over time. Your very first attempt at a creative idea will likely only capture the general feeling of what you’re after.

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