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Title: The Dance of the Possible
Subtitle: The Mostly Honest Completely Irreverent Guide to Creativity
Author: Scott Berkun
Narrator: Scott Berkun
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-15-17
Publisher: Pear Press
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Self Development, Motivation & Inspiration
Publisher's Summary:
This short, fast paced, irreverent guide to creativity is for everyone who wants better ideas and to finish projects they inspire. In 21 short chapters you'll discover a fresh way to understand creative thinking, how ideas work, plus insights from decades of study on both how to be more productive and creative at the same time.
With challenging chapters on topics like creative confidence, making bold decisions, and separating the need for feedback from the desire for encouragement, even if you've read or listened to other books on the subject, or if this is your first, The Dance of The Possible will surprise you, make you think, laugh and perhaps even dance when you get back to work.
Critic Reviews:
"This new nugget of genius from Scott is the best thing I've read about creativity in a long time." (Dan Roam, author of The Back of The Napkin and Draw to Win)
"You'll find a lot to steal from this short, inspiring guide to being creative. Made me want to get up and make stuff!" (Austin Kleon, author of How to Steal Like An Artist)
Members Reviews:
A Long Overdue Dose of Creativity Expectation Management
Scott's irreverent but concise creativity guide wastes no time in puncturing multiple balloons floating around the echo chamber of the "creative thinking" industry. For example, I like the fact that he points out the term "creative thinking" is redundant, because when you reduce the creative process to its essence it's essentially a decision making process aka thinking.
The book is broken into three parts which roughly correlate to Idea creation, Idea development, and Idea deployment.
Part 1 Idea Creation
Scott clarifies the fact that nothing really is truly original and all ideas stand on the shoulders of giants, so to speak.
He offers a number of methods for finding ideas, and I agree with his approach of having a small toolbox of solid methods vs an ever expanding universe of pundit solutions. Use his or find your own, but keep it manageable and you'll be more productive.
The motivation for solving a problem is an interesting area in itself (ideas driven vs needs driven approaches) and Scott elaborates on some aspects of this. I felt it could have gone a little deeper using psychological theories such as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to more outcome focused innovation processes like Ulwick's Jobs To Be Done, but that's a big topic in itself.
I really like the concept of the "Dance Of The Possible". It's an accurate emotive (visual, physical, emotional, auditory++) metaphor for the thinking process of exploring a solution space to a problem. Scott punctures a few more balloons here by highlighting that "Discovery is never efficient", so you need to get some skin in the game and enjoy the process as much as the outcome.
At the end of Part 1 he goes into the need to learn how to improvise. I fully agree with this, but I would also add (based on my own experience as a technologist and a musician) that improvisation best starts from knowing some kind of framework or reference point first. The old adage about knowing the rule book before you throw it away can pay dividends, especially if your improvisation needs to speak to people familiar with an existing paradigm.