This conversation includes several topics of interest to leaders and creative thinkers (that’s all of us), and even a little grammar lesson with laughter tossed in.  This episode includes banter about:

• The best way to have fun and/or meaningful conversation with someone? Leave your phone in your pocket—or better yet, in the car!
• What to do when the Zoom call freezes when someone is mid-sentence
• What in the world is the Oxford Comma?
• Does anyone truly know when to use a semi-colon??   Tricia’s practical advice: “Using a semi-colon well makes you look so smart, so fast.”
• A fun group exercise idea to help your team (or even your family) get their creative ideas flowing
• “Blue sky” meetings: a creative thinking tool from Disney
• The most creative people are collaborators; they don’t create in a vacuum
• If you’re having trouble creating whatever it is you create, stop and do something else to let your brain refill with ideas: read a book, go for a walk, do something different
• Singer Johnny Cash’s secret to creative song writing
• “It is far easier to be creative on schedule than it is to be creative on cue.” - Rob
• “Sometimes you can’t stop the fun. Sometimes, when Inspiration shows up, you just pull up a chair and you invite her to stay, and you don’t silence her! Because when she shows up, she likes to have a voice.” – Tricia

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Sean of the South¸ an excellent and thoughtful blog by Sean Dietrich—easily found online or Facebook

Eats Shoots and Leaves, by Lynne Truss

Caffeine for the Creative Team: 150 Exercises to Inspire Group Innovation, by Stefan Mumaw

Bird by Bird, by Ann Lamott

Any books by: Madeleine L’Engle, Marissa de los Santos, Elizabeth Berg, Ann Lamott

Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert

Steal Like an Artist, by Austin Kleon

Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity, by Hugh MacLeod (“that guy who draws on business cards”)

Do Over, by Jon Acuff, “one of the leading dreamers in the world”

 

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