Coming up with creative ideas isn’t magical. It’s a skill to develop. Some people have been working on it for a long time, like TV Producer Shonda Rhimes. Here, she highlights 5 quick tips for creative productivity in the middle of a busy life.
My Word For the Year Is a Plea To Recognize Our Most Precious Commodity
Presence is a plea to recognize the fleeting nature of this life and to fully appreciate the scarce and valuable commodity of time, and to be able to purposefully waste time on activities whose value isn’t easily quantifiable, which don’t serve immediate needs and which don’t add to the bottom line. Creativity depends on it.
If The Goals You Set for the New Year Fail, This Could Be Why
As I dream about the new year, I have realized there’s one mistake I need to avoid making: the reason most goals don’t work is not that they’re too big. It’s that they’re too vague.
The Two Things Every Great Creative Project Must Have
A simple Venn diagram that summarizes the greatness and challenge of every great creative work.
The Half Life of Your Work
Why the worst thing for a creative is to bask too long in the glory of something you’ve done.
Good-Fast-Cheap is Terrible. Except When It’s Helpful.
Good-fast-cheap is the bane of every artist and designer, except when it isn’t.
This App is Saving My Tail Right Now
A simple little app that is keeping me above water while I get settled in my new GA world.
Creative Work Habits
Creative people have indigenous work habits – peculiar maybe, to the outsider, but natural to the creative person.