Creative thinking. Why success comes from being unique!

First and Foremost I would like to thank Alex Ray "https://www.araysphotography.com/" for the amazing designs! I look forward to working with him more in the future as this podcast continues to grow.

As our technology and discoveries become more advanced, sadly our way of understanding our potential does NOT! In a world of one-way thinking; YOU have every right to stand out in your own unique way. Just because we have built false notions on HOW you should use your knowledge and potential DOESN'T mean that is how you should live your life.

In this episode, we discover what it means to be the winner in a corporate world and education system that KILLS our creativity. We discuss the importance of recognizing what makes your creativity unique and using that in your day to day operation in order to give yourself (and your team) what is deserved!

0:00- 4:30

Why our current mindset is KILLLING out creativity:

• It’s now about HOW MUCH you know but HOW you USE what you know
• Creative thinking in the corporate mindset

4:30 – 08:10

How creative thinking relates to you personally:

• Understand that your mind is much more complex than you get credit for
• Why modern interviews are behind
• The “Zombification Phase”
• WHY WE SHOULD ASK QUESTIONS!!! 

8:10-10:30

Creative Thinking in Communication:

• The role of the Encoder and the Decoder in verbal communication
• Why your discomfort or feelings towards another person’s communication isn’t a THEM problem.
• “HIGH SCHOOL ON STEROIDS”

10:30- 13:15

Why creative thinking is SO IMPORTANT to YOU:

• Why job performance and curriculum education has NO accuracy in defining your creative nature
• Back to Ashley Stahl and how she defines your creative nature as your CORE SKILL sets
• How our current system in society KILLS creativity!
• How we should consider a shift in our current programs and standards

12:15 – 16:30

The dangers of being a student prodigy (especially in the world of Art):

• The sad outcomes of MOST student prodigies quoted by Adam Grant’s book “ORIGINALS, Ho2 Non-Conformists Move the World”
• The questioning of the mindset we choose to have once we are in the industry
• Should be change the way we view the outcomes of our interviews???

16:30 – 19:29

Outshine the world with your creative thinking… SHAMLESSLY:

• Your uniqueness is much more powerful than you will ever know
• Your job/responsibility as a creative thinker and an artist!
• We’re ALL Artists
• “There’s a scarcity of free thinkers, it’s all group thought.” ~Russ in Logics song "Therapy Music"

19:29 – 21:55

• Example from the New York Post article: “Why today’s youth are no longer starstruck by NYC “Fame School’.”
• “I said it was posted by ‘The New York Times.’ I was wrong…. It SHOULD be ‘The New York POST.’

21:55 – 24:00

How I learned what it TRULY means to be unique by being the WORST competitive dancer:

• Why it’s not always about being “the best” but being the best at UNIQUE
• The time I got called out for being the best unique performer there was WITHOUT being the best!!!

24:00 – END

Conclusion:

• Less of creative knowledge is greater than an abundant amount of fixed knowledge
• My mission in developing a land for the artist!
• Only YOU and your creative mind define who you are, NOTHING ELSE!!!