The Common Creative

In this week’s episode Dr. Kerry Sulkowicz talks about his journey from pre-eminent psychiatrist to successful business leader and business coach. He describes how he made that change, why he made that change, and shares his lessons for anyone considering a change of direction.

Kerry J. Sulkowicz, MD serves as a trusted advisor on people and culture to some of the world’s most well-known and respected CEOs and corporate boards. He is the founder and Managing Principal of the Boswell Group LLC, a management consultancy based in New York since 1998. Dr. Sulkowicz is President of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

 

Kerry Sulkowicz - Special Guest

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerry-j-sulkowicz-md-06b9b12

Websites

https://boswellgroup.com/

Paul Fairweather - Co-host

https://www.paulfairweather.com

Chris Meredith - Co-host

https://www.chrismeredith.com.au=

Two Common Creatives

https://www.twocommoncreatives.com/podcast

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Episode 61: Roger Beaty - Creative Thinking

How does the brain develop new ideas? And are different neural networks involved in different types of creativity?  In this week’s episode Dr. Roger Beaty talks about the three neural networks that drive the way we think and shares insights about managing your own personal creativity.

Big insights include:

• Take a break to help ‘re-set’ the mind
• Harness the power of a positive mood to boost creativity
• Focus on the tiny details of something (anything!)  before generating new ideas

Dr. Roger Beaty is an assistant professor of psychology at Pennsylvania State University and the principal director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity Lab. Having studied creativity for ten years, he is primarily interested in understanding the brain basis of creative thoughts.

 

Roger Beaty - Special Guest

https://beatylab.la.psu.edu 

Websites

Sonophilia Foundation

https://www.sonophiliafoundation.org/roger-beaty/

Society for Neuroscience of Creativity

https://www.tsfnc.org

Paul Fairweather - Co-host

https://www.paulfairweather.com

Chris Meredith - Co-host

https://www.chrismeredith.com.au

Two Common Creatives

https://www.twocommoncreatives.com/podcast

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Are there different kinds of mindwandering?  What is the difference between mindwandering and mindfulness?  What is the link between creativity and curiosity?

In this week's episode, Professor Jonathan Schooler helps to answer these complex-sounding questions in plain english and help us continue to navigate the world of creative neuroscience.

Jonathan is a distinguished professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara and research attempts to understand the nature of mental life, and in particular consciousness. 

 

Jonathan Schooler - Special Guest

https://psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/jonathan-schooler

The Open Mind Project

https://open-mind.net/about

Paul Fairweather - Co-host

https://www.paulfairweather.com

Chris Meredith - Co-host

https://www.chrismeredith.com.au

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In this week’s episode, we interview Linda Ray - CEO and founder of Neurocapability, a business which is on a mission to change the world one brain at a time by building psychologically safe workplaces.  

An early adopter of psychological safety and the links to high performing teams, Linda is an engaging facilitator and speaker.  She is a regular contributor to Australian and international leadership, business and education conferences and her courses and programs have been tested and validated by researchers around the world.

https://neurocapability.com.au

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In this week's episode let's talk about brain training! 

Professor Selena Bartlett is a Group Leader in Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity at the Translational Research Institute and a Research Capacity Building Professor at QUT. Join us for a fantastic conversation about brain training, flow states and the importance of working in teams for creativity. 

Links/References

Selena Bartlett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drselenabartlett/

Selena Bartlett website: https://www.profselenabartlett.com/

Thriving Minds Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thriving-minds/id1471835230

The Common Creative Podcast (Paul and Chris): https://creativecommons.org.au

The Common Creative (Mailing List Subscriptions): http://eepurl.com/hgp0_j

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In this week’s episode, we interview Professor Joel Pearson, a psychologist, neuroscientist and public intellectual working at the forefront of science, innovation and agile science. He both studied art and science because he felt that these two are very similar and the way he practices science is probably more like an art. So, he developed “Agile Science”. He takes a multidisciplinary agile approach to running his lab, bringing in staff and students from art, architecture, mathematics, computer science, psychology, neuroscience and medical imaging. 

Professor Joel Pearson’s research has been recognised with major accolades including the 2009 William James award for the greatest scientific contribution to understanding consciousness. His team’s efforts have been featured in The Huffington Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, LiveScience, Discovery Channel, BBC and a host of other major media outlets. 

https://www.profjoelpearson.com/

https://www.futuremindslab.com/

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A celebrated TED speaker, Uri Hasson started his career with the intention of becoming a fictional writer. Nowadays, he’s taken storytelling to a new level and is a world authority on the neuroscience of storytelling. His research confirms what many know instinctively that stories are how we listen and learn. Stories are how we connect. (By contrast, humans struggle to make sense of data, statistics and raw facts). Interestingly Uri defines a story as ’a stimulation’ something that almost implants a memory into the listener's mind. “A story is like the juice of an orange - it squeezes the essence of the experience” he explains.

 

Professor Uri Hasson is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. His research focuses on understanding how communication through story telling can affect human cognition. His TED talk “This is your brain on communication” has achieved over 250,000 views.

https://www.hassonlab.com 

https://youtu.be/FDhlOovaGrI

Ideas & Stories that Matter: https://www.twocommoncreatives.com/workshop

Two Common Creatives: https://www.twocommoncreatives.com/

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In this week’s episode, we interview Professor Moshe Bar, whose new book Mindwandering reveals that the creative brain continues to work hard, even when we’re at rest. As he puts it, “Mindwandering is like mental time travel” because it helps to open the mind up to new possibilities and what might be in the future.  Moshe’s research also suggests that, in order to be creative, the brain needs to be in an ‘exploratory’ mode - open to the world and tolerant of uncertainty.  And that, in turn, means mastering your mindset and particularly recognising the power of a positive mood for unlocking creativity.

Moshe Bar is a neuroscientist, director of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain research centre at Bar Ilan University and head of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Centre.

https://www.moshebar.org/mindwandering

https://www.amazon.com.au/Mindwandering-Improve-Your-Boost-Creativity/dp/1408888068/

Ideas & Stories that Matter: https://www.twocommoncreatives.com/workshop

Two Common Creatives: https://www.twocommoncreatives.com/

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This week on The Common Creative Podcast Episode 54, our guest talks about being ideas rich. There is an image illustration of what he describes as "....the promise that in the future, there'll be something beautiful and creative and inspiring to come.", join us and find out what that image is! Let's welcome Dan Best.

Dan Best is the CEO of Wolters Consulting Group. He is a highly driven, success-oriented leader who moved into executive management after a successful career in the legal profession. Dan is also an award-winning author, having co-authored the award-winning Graphic Novel, “The Amazing, Remarkable, Monsieur Leotard” in 2008.  The novel was recently translated into French and in 2017 received the prestigious honour of being named on Angoulême Official List of outstanding Graphic Novels.

Dan has also written for DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics and co-published the popular Australian Comic Anthology series, Dee Vee. His creative side is not just limited to writing and in his spare time he is the conductor of an amateur male voice choir.

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-best-gaicd-441788179/

Website: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2923529-the-amazing-remarkable-monsieur-leotard

&

https://www.amazon.com.au/Amazing-Remarkable-Monsieur-Leotard-Best/dp/1596433019

Ideas & Stories that Matter: https://www.twocommoncreatives.com/workshop

Two Common Creatives: https://www.twocommoncreatives.com/

Special Mention:

Simon Cleary: http://www.simoncleary.com/

 

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This week on The Common Creative Podcast Episode 53, our guest describes creativity as about taking risks and diving straight in. She tells us that illustration is imagination - those little doodles are your imaginations running wild.

Let's welcome Kristina Snyder! She is a creative force in the business world as the founder and CEO of SNYDER. She uses her creativity to represent artists, illustrators, animators, and visual artists from around the world. Kristina is a former photographer and travel writer and has meandered through the creative communities in New York City since she arrived from her native Sweden. Her greatest creative expression comes out in her work in the business world, and she believes that that is what has set her apart as a successful entrepreneur.

LINKS:

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/aka_kristinasnyder/ 

& 

https://www.instagram.com/wearesnyder_/

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristina-snyder-3390ab6/

Website:

http://wearesnyder.com

Ideas & Stories that Matter:

https://www.twocommoncreatives.com/workshop

Two Common Creatives:

https://www.twocommoncreatives.com/

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