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
In an earlier episode, we talked about how constraints guide your creative work. To refresh your memory, constraints are the boundaries that are placed on a product. Constraints are how we ensure that our creative work is not just unique, but useful as well. When we correctly define our constraints, we understand the full scope
Sometimes creative people fall into the originality trap. They focus so much on originality that they lose focus on the other half of the creativity equation: effectiveness. To be creative, an idea much be both useful and unique. Listen to the podcast here: Ignoring either side of the equation is a recipe for disaster. Usefulness
The way you improve imagination is by influencing the direction/topic or by removing constraints. Imagination, itself, doesn’t need to be improved. You already have plenty of it. People that think they aren’t very imaginative tend to view imagination very narrowly. Imagination is a combination of combining mental imagery, emotions, and storytelling. Generally, we view imagination