The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

By Srinivas RaoSociety & Culture

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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast episodes

April 26 Amy Blankson: Five Strategies to Find Happiness in a Tech-Saturated World
Amy Blankson, happiness researcher and author of The Future of Happiness, explains how positive psychology can help us use technology intentionally rather than reactively. She shares practical strategies including tracking phone usage, leveraging wearables for self-awareness, and making conscious micro-decisions about when and why we use our devices.
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52 min
April 25 Alex Pang: Why Working Less Can Make You More Creative
Historian and futurist Alex Pang explains why history's most creative people worked in short, focused bursts and took their leisure seriously. He traces the science behind rest, walking, naps, and deep play as tools for creativity, drawing on everyone from Darwin to Stephen King.
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1 hr 1 min
April 21 B. Jeffrey: Why Obsession Is the Hidden Cost of Building an Empire
B. Jeffrey, a teacher at Parsons School of Design and author of Creative Careers, discusses how to make a living from your ideas without chasing false definitions of success. He explores the difference between having a vision and proving a concept, why obsession is a necessary condition for building empires like Ralph Lauren or Apple, and how most creative people never ask themselves what success actually looks like to them.
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45 min
April 20 David Allen: Why Your Brain is a Terrible Office
David Allen, creator of the Getting Things Done methodology, shares the unconventional path that led him from 35 jobs before 35, drug experimentation, and a childhood fascination with magic to becoming the godfather of modern productivity. He explains why your brain evolved for pattern recognition, not task management, and breaks down his capture-clarify-organize-reflect-engage framework.
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50 min
April 19 Dan Lerner: Why Your Character Strengths Matter More Than Your Skills
Dan Lerner teaches the Science of Happiness at NYU. He explains how to identify your signature strengths using the VIA assessment and why companies that emphasize character strengths see 73% employee engagement versus 9% for those focused on weaknesses. Includes a story about a lawyer who turned down a Fortune 100 job to join Jet.com as their 10th employee.
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59 min
April 18 Cyril Bouquet: How to Think Like an Alien to Unlock Creativity
Cyril Bouquet, professor at IMD Business School and lifelong immigrant, explains how creativity requires seeing the world with fresh eyes. He breaks down the ALIEN framework, an acronym for five lenses that help you escape conventional thinking and approach problems like someone from another planet.
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1 hr 2 min
April 17 Brad Stulberg: Why Stability Comes from Changing, Not Resisting Change
Brad Stulberg returns to discuss his book Master of Change, exploring how the science of allostasis reveals that true stability comes from adapting rather than resisting. He shares practical frameworks like 2Ps vs 4Ps for handling daily disruptions and tragic optimism for navigating life's bigger changes.
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1 hr
April 16 AJ Leon: The Defiance That Shapes a Life Worth Living
AJ Leon shares how losing his father at 14 and growing up marginalized shaped his philosophy of defiance over courage. He discusses the Ms. Mitchell moment that catalyzed his career, why context matters when processing grief, and the deliberate thoughtfulness behind building Misfit Inc into a collection of six companies.
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1 hr 12 min
April 14 Chase Jarvis: Creativity is a Birthright, Not a Gift
Chase Jarvis, founder of CreativeLive and author of Creative Calling, discusses why creativity is a practical skill everyone possesses from birth that gets systematically suppressed by education and culture. He breaks down his IDEA framework for unlocking creative potential and building a life around the work you were meant to do.
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1 hr 13 min
April 13 Adam Gazzaley: Why Your Ancient Brain Struggles With Modern Tech
UCSF neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley explains the evolutionary mismatch between our attention systems and modern technology. He breaks down top-down vs bottom-up attention, the limits of cognitive control, and practical strategies for reclaiming focus in a distracted world.
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55 min