Productive Creativity
56mGeneral2021-09-14
Authors

Denise Jacobs
Speaker, Author, and Creativity Evangelist
Course details
Everyone has moments of being on fire with creativity, but often the time of being in the state of creative flow is all too short. Additionally, sometimes we get stuck: we lack inspiration, our creative confidence wanes, and the generation of ideas comes to a standstill. It’s great when creative inspirations strike like bolts of lighting, but that’s the problem—they hit seemingly at random. So how do you access creative states when you need them? In this course, Denise Jacobs shows you that creativity is a skill, one that you need to first learn then repeat over and over. And, much like elite athletes, creatives need to exercise discipline to be able to get into the “zone” at will and produce consistently great results. Denise explores ideas and practices for regularly gathering sources of inspiration, eliminating blocks to more easily access creative states, prolong them, and leverage their power to develop and execute great work.
Skills covered
CreativityTime ManagementGraphic DesignProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - The art of productive creativity
1. Eliminate Distractions
- 02 - Disconnect from tech to unblock creativity
- 03 - Clean up your areas of habit
- 04 - Block external distractions
- 05 - Stop multitasking to find your focus
2. Manage Your Time and Energy
- 06 - Know where your time goes
- 07 - Make space for creativity
- 08 - Embrace time constraints to amp up productivity
3. Cultivate a Creativity Habit
- 09 - Collect and curate inspiration to spark ideas
- 10 - Capture all of your ideas
- 11 - Show up every day to creativity
- 12 - Pace yourself for maximum creative output
Conclusion
- 13 - Start doing your best work