A moment with The Creative Condition founder Ben Tallon as he shares creativity-led thoughts, insights, lessons, feelings, and observations for the duration of one brew (hot beverage).

Today, deepfake Steveb Bartlett and the beginning of the end of the internet, Tala Rae Schlossberg, local wilding, council emails, and getting back to tribal enrichment.

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Our cultures and societies are changing at a rate we were not designed to adapt to or comprehend. Our minds can rage from wild optimism to pessimism and nihilism 100s of times a day. 

What does this mean for creativity, art, and design?

I'm joined by the VP of Innovation and Strategy at Marks, Jennifer Murtell, fresh off the fantastic work with female healthcare brand MUSA, with an entirely female team. She recently wrote a piece on the topic for The Drum on 'Why we need women designing for women'.

We get deep into our changing times and what it means to use our creativity in a commercial environment.

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Simon Dixon, co-founder of DixonBaxi posted about the importance of designing your own career to avoid someone shaping it in an ill-fitting way. 

It blew my mind, succinctly capturing so many universal creativity truths and bringing about a personal revelation that through my coaching, this is exactly what I'm helping my clients to do.

But what does it mean, and why is it so vital to career and life fulfillment?

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https://www.dixonbaxi.com/

The original post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simonsdixon_design-the-career-you-want-to-live-if-you-activity-7315761669303926784-4Ngd?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAU0R0IB77CfZWGalbMufEjVc_KIOl3hdbY

I don't know much about video games, but the medium intrigues me, so I'm joined by Oddbug Studio's art director and environment artist Martin Reimann fresh off the hugely successful launch of Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter.

I throw a lot of naive questions Martin's way about the role of a video game art director, the origins of both Oddbug and Tails of Iron, and we get into many aspects of creativity, passion, and the trials and tribulations of managing the mind in the creative process.

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Visit Oddbug at https://www.oddbug.co.uk/

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Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':

• AI rage
• A loss of mental balance
• Tala Schlossberg's wonderful comment on beauty in the dark
• The need for jeopardy remembered

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For Tala Schlossberg: https://www.talaschlossberg.com/

In our 1000mph lives, it's so hard to listen and be heard, but deep listening is a critical part of the creative process. Being heard makes for unity, healthy relationships, and human value. 

I'm joined by the author of the brilliant Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing, Rageshri Dhairyawan. Rageshri felt unheard while suffering extreme endometriosis pain, which planted the seed of the idea that became the book. She wanted to use her position and experience as a doctor, researcher, and consultant in HIV and sexual health medicine to call for better doctor - patient relationships and continuity of care.

We talk creativity, the value of the arts to tell stories, what happens when people are both heard, and unheard in and beyond healthcare and much more.

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Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':

• The joy of being lost
• The inaugural Paradiso Festival
• The Burrills at breakfast
• A found book impact

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Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':

• Managing our 'insurmountables'
• The joy of childish humour and Looney Tunes villains
• 'The heels': common creativity villains
• World book day – magic or consumerist tosh?

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Amie McNee is the founder of 'Inspired Collective', where she supports people in becoming their inner artist. Her new book We Need Your Art! Stop Messing Around and Make Something is out on Penguin Books, and she joins The Creative Condition to share her story.

Amie is a huge advocate for artistic expression as a missing pillar of understanding in the human condition, and her work to challenge this tragic oversight is awesome.

We trade viewpoints and stories and marvel over what's possible in a society where creativity is better understood and embraced.

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https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462403/we-need-your-art-by-mcnee-amie/9781529937015

https://inspiredcollective.com

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Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':

• A time-slip in Preston
• Losing Ken Garland and my time with him
• Covering up news headline panels on vulnerable days
• The wonder and imagination in boring church services
• A growing obsession with storytelling

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