There's a movement brewing built upon leveraging the transformative power of creativity to help us work and create better so that we can produce work infused with meaning. Discover how by knowing your Why, instilling tiny habits to cultivate your creative spark, and finally, fomenting creative collaboration based on the tenets of improv and open spaces, you can take the spark of Creativity (R)Evolution and use it as the impetus to push you, your teams, and your companies to create Betterness.
42. Are you a terrorist to yourself?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/koomatuomio/4182554398/
43. “Obsessing about preventing bad
things from happening also
prevents good things from
happening, or sometimes
prevents anything from
happening at all.”
- Scott Berkun, The Year Without
Pants
44. You are the gateway
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eschipul/4396790244/
45. It’s all about you being “self-ful”
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47. Love what you do. Do what you love.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmscottimd/616642026/
48. “The only way to be truly satisfied is
to do what you believe is great
work. The only way to do great work
is to love what you do.”
- Steve Jobs,
2005 Stanford Commencement
speech
49. By nurturing your own spark
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50. You’ll begin to open up
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54. “One of the best ways to make
yourself happy is to make other
people happy. One of the best
ways to make other people
happy is to be happy yourself.”
- Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness
Project
68. Shift into the habits you want to develop
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69. Think of several topics you are a
bad-ass in. Write up 1-2 talk
descriptions based on your
interests and expertise.
Be courageous and share them with
peers.
Homework: Write a talk description
75. Happiness is contagious
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-10/ff_christakis?currentPage=all
Each happy friend
increased an individual's
probability of being
happy by 9 percent.
Even perfect strangers
three degrees of
separation away—
friends of friends of
friends—exerted a
significant uplifting
influence
Unhappy people at the
center of the network
are more likely than
those at the periphery to
become happy in the
future.
76. And your change will spread beyond you
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83. I mean really listen
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84. “Getting people together is easy,
but having a culture of getting
them to be good at building
upon each other’s ideas is hard.”
- David Kelly, Founder of IDEO
85. Over lunch in 1994
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters,_Inc.
87. “Creativity is social…and comes out of
small teams of twos and threes and
fours and fives and sixes. Instead (of
brainstorming) you need ‘magic circles,’
small teams of people who trust each
other, are familiar with each other, and
play together.”
- Bruce Nussbaum,
Creativity Intelligence
88. Be the one that starts the process
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111. “Betterness can't happen if you're
spending your life churning out
toxic junk. It can only happen
when more meaningful work is
done.”
- Umair Haque, Betterness:
Economics for Humans
112. Eudaimonia = Human flourishing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bohman/174718774/
113. “Happiness is not just a mood—it’s a
work ethic. Study after…study
proves that happiness precedes
important outcomes and indicators
of thriving. Happiness is actually
the precursor to success.”
- Shawn Achor, The Happiness
Advantage: The Seven Principles of
Positive Psychology That Fuel
Success and Performance at Work
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