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Memberships

Members support the show while getting instant access to all of our creativity courses plus bonus lessons every month. 

Sponsor A Topic

When you sponsorship an episode, you get to choose the topic for that day and support the show at the same time. If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking “I wish he’d talk about X or mention Z,” then this is your opportunity. And the best part, you’ll be helping us off-set some of the costs for putting the show on. Everybody wins. 

Sponsoring an episode is a great option if…

1. You are curious about a specific topic and want to learn more. (i.e., “Can you explain how innovative companies motivate employees long-term?”)
2. You already love a topic and want to share it with other listeners. (i.e., “Issac Newton is my favorite scientist. Can we do an episode on how he invented calculus?”)
3. Want to be an ***hole. (i.e., “Here’s a few bucks, I’d like you to do a 3 hour episode on creative strategies for chess players trying to counter an opponent using the Bishop Opening without relying too heavily on the Alekhine’s Defense. And don’t waste my time with the Albin Counter-Gambit. This isn’t 1990. I need it by Tuesday.”

WHAT TOPICS CAN I CHOOSE TO SPONSOR?

You can choose any topic you like. Creativity can be found in all industries in many different forms. 

GUIDE TO CHOOSING YOUR TOPIC

Here’s are some easy options for you to choose from when sponsoring an episode. The easiest (and most practical) choices are:

1. Choose your industry
2. Choose a specific problem creative people face in your industry

TOPIC HELP GUIDE

Creative Process

• Abstract Thinking
• Assumptions & How They Effect Our Creativity
• Constraints
• Convergent Thinking
• Creative Inspiration
• Creativity Blocks
• Divergent Thinking
• Elaboration
• Feedback
• Imagination
• Implementation
• Insight
• Persuasion & Marketing
• Problem Finding
• Problem Solving

Creative Personality & Personality Traits

• Ambition
• Anxiety/Stress
• Attitudes
• Childlike Tendencies
• Conservatism/Conformity
• Controlled Weirdness
• Creative Potential
• Extraversion/Introversion
• Identity & Self-Concept
• Intelligence And Creativity
• Self-Actualization
• Self-Efficacy
• Trait: Adaptability
• Trait: Adventurousness
• Trait: Aloofness/Hostility/Coldness
• Trait: Autonomy
• Trait: Curiosity
• Trait: Flexibility
• Trait: Imaginative
• Trait: Impulsivity
• Trait: Independence
• Trait: Norm-Doubting
• Trait: Perseverance/Persistence
• Trait: Playfulness
• Trait: Psychological Androgyny
• Trait: Risk Taking Willingness
• Trait: Self-Confidence
• Trait: Sensitivity To Problems

Motivation & Creativity

• “Contributing To Others” As A Motivator
• Acquiring Creative Energy
• Alcohol And Tobacco
• Anxiety
• Creative Habits
• Creativity Blocks: Our Actions
• Creativity Blocks: Our Beliefs
• Creativity Blocks: Our Fears
• Creativity Blocks: Our Strategy
• Distractions
• Emotions And The Brain
• Extrinsic Motivation
• Focus
• Goals
• Intrinsic Motivation
• Maslow’s Hierarchy
• Mood & Creativity
• The Worry Of Failure
• Productivity
• Push Vs. Pull Motivation
• Self-Actualization
• Self-Efficacy
• Self-Consciousness/Worry
• Taking Initiative
• Time Limits & Creativity
• Undermining Motivation
• Why We Choke In High-Pressure Situations
• Willingness To Generate Ideas
• Willpower
• Writer’s Block

Creative Products

• How Creative Products Influence The World
• Copyright Law & Creativity
• Creativity Is Amoral
• Criteria For a Creative Product
• Patent Law & Creativity
• Virtuous Circles / Vicious Circles 
• What Creativity Is & What It Isn’t
• Your Creativity Is A Game, Here’s How To Play It

Creative Environments / Places

• Centrality In Your Industry
• Liquid Networks
• Marginality & Uniqueness
• Squelchers

Marketing/Persuasion

• Adoption Curve of Innovation
• Anchor & Adjust – How The Brain Takes Guesses
• Communicating the Value of Innovations
• “Do The Opposite” As A Marketing Strategy
• Emotions & Persuasion
• Raving Fans
• Steve Jobs: How He Mastered Innovation Marketing

Organizational Creativity (Business)

• Adaptation vs. Innovation
• Autonomy
• Change Management
• Creative Environment/Climate
• Creative Tension
• Dealing With Ambiguity
• Diversity
• Employee Motivation
• Feedback
• Group Decision Making
• Innovation Team Building
• Knowledge Brokering
• Leadership Behaviors For Creativity
• Radicalness of Ideas

Creative Techniques/Exercises

• Linear Thinking Exercises
• Holistic Thinking Exercises
• Problem Finding Exercises
• Problem Defining Exercises
• “Make It Happen” Exercises
• “Let It Happen” Exercises

History (People)

• Adam Smith
• Aesop
• Albert Einstein
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Alexander The Great
• Andrew Carnegie
• Andy Kaufman
• Archimedes
• Aristotle
• Beethoven
• Benjamin Franklin
• Bill Gates
• Bob Dylan
• Bruce Springsteen
• Buddha
• Catherine The Great
• Charlemagne
• Charles Dickens
• Claud Monet
• Constantine
• Copernicus
• Da Vinci
• Darwin
• David Hume
• Democritus
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Einstein
• Elon Musk
• Emily Dickinson
• Epictetus
• Epicurus
• Euripedes
• Fibonacci
• Francis Bacon
• Franklin D Roosevelt
• Frederic Chopin
• Frederick The Great
• Galileo
• Gandhi
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• George Carlin
• George Orwell
• George Washington
• Gutenberg
• Hannibal
• Hero Of Alexandria
• Hippocrates
• Homer
• Immanuel Kant
• Issac Newton
• Jeff Bezos
• Jim Carrey
• JK Rowling
• Johann Bach
• John Calvin
• John D Rockefeller
• John F Kennedy
• John Lennon
• John Locke
• John Milton
• Jon Stewart (Comedian)
• Josef Stalin
• Joseph Smith
• JP Morgan
• JRR Tolkien
• Julius Caesar
• Karl Marx
• Kepler
• King Arthur
• Lao Tzu
• Leonardo Da Vince
• Lenny Bruce (Comedian)
• Lorenzo Ghiberti
• Louis Armstrong
• Louis Pasteur
• Marco Polo
• Marie Antoinette
• Marie Curie
• Mark Anthony
• Mark Twain
• Martha Stewart
• Martin Luther
• Max Planck
• MC Escher
• Medici Family
• Michelangelo
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Monet
• Mozart
• Napoleon
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Neils Bohr
• Nero
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Nikola Tesla
• Octavian
• Odysseus (The Iliad & Odyssey)
• Oracle At Delphi
• Pablo Picasso
• Pascal
• Plato
• Pompey
• Ptolemy
• Pythagoras
• Rene Descartes
• Renoir
• Richard Branson
• Richard Nixon
• Richard Pryor
• Salvador Dali
• Schrodinger (Physicist)
• Seneca
• Shakespeare
• Sir Francis Drake
• Socrates
• Sophocles
• Spartacus
• St. Augustine
• Stephen Hawking
• Steve Jobs
• Sun Yat-Sen
• Tacitus
• Tchaikovsky
• Teotihuacan
• Thomas Edison
• Thomas Jefferson
• Tim Burton
• Tim Farriss
• Tolstoy
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Van Gogh
• Virgil
• Vladimir Lenin
• Voltaire
• Walk Whitman
• Walt Disney
• Winston Churchill
• Woody Allen
• Xeno
• Xerxes

History (Events, & Inventions)

• The Calendar
• The Coliseum (Rome)
• Comedy
• Democracy
• Philosophy
• The Medici Family
• Plagues & Diseases
• The Justinian Code
• The Odyssey (Homor)
• Phalanx 
• Pharaohs
• Printing Press
• Statue of David
• The Thinker Statue
• Slavery
• Stoicism
• The Taj Mahal
• Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu)
• Trojan horse
• Calculus
• The Analytic Machine (the 1st “computer”)

History (Time periods)

• The Stone Age
• The Bronze Age
• The Iron Age
• Ancient China
• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Byzantium 
• The Middle East
• The Dark Ages
• The Renaissance
• The Scientific Awakening
• The New World
• The American Revolution
• The French Revolution
• The Industrial Revolution
• World War 1
• The Roaring 20’s
• World War 2
• The Cold War

History (How Industries/Ideas Evolved)

• Agriculture
• Architecture
• Banking
• Religion
• Democracy
• Art
• Music
• Etc.