Scott Berkun — The Dance of the Possible: A better way to understand how to work with ideas (Turing Fest 2018)

You work with ideas, big and small, all day long - isn’t it time you learn the deep patterns that explain your successes and failures? This short and fun presentation, will share timeless patterns and entertaining insights that can help you, and your team, be more creative and productive all at the same time. From finding creative confidence, to reusing brilliant ideas from the past, you’ll be entertained as you’re challenged to think differently about (creative) thinking.

Transcript

1. The Dance of the possible: the mostly honest, completely irreverent, guide to creativity Scott Berkun | scottberkun.com 
 August 2018 @ TuringFest
2. 1884 !2
3. !3 1884: Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier +
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5. !5 Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier 
 had to convince Stephen Sauvestre 
 to work on their design + +
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8. LESSON #1:
 ALL IDEAS ARE MADE OF OTHER IDEAS
9. II’m @BERKUN
 
 
 
 HiYou can take photos as I go if you like or 
 get the slides you will see here: bit.ly/berkun-uxlx
10. LESSON #1:
 ALL IDEAS ARE MADE OF OTHER IDEAS
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21. STUDY THE HISTORY OF A PROBLEM TO FIND NEW IDEAS FOR SOLVING IT
28. By Ivan Listes - https://twitter.com/ilistes/status/250658949467099136
29. LESSON #2:
 GREAT IDEAS OFTEN LOOK WEIRD (AT FIRST)
30. "We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects … protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection … of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower“ 
 - Committee of 300, Le Temps, 1887
 "this truly tragic street lamp" (Bloy) "this belfry skeleton" (Verlaine) "this mast of iron gymnasium apparatus, incomplete, confused and deformed" (Coppée) !30
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35. ALL MASTERPIECES START AS EXPERIMENTS
36. LESSON #3:
 OUR MINDS ARE NATURALLY CREATIVE
37. CREATIVE THINKING CREATIVE THINKING
 CREATIVE THINKING THINKING
38. “Most people would rather die than think, and many of them do!”
 
 - Bertrand Russell
40. WHEN SUITABLY MOTIVATED BY A HARD PROBLEM CREATIVITY IS UNAVOIDABLE
41. WHEN SUITABLY MOTIVATED BY A HARD PROBLEM CREATIVITY IS UNAVOIDABLE
42. DOUBLE-TIME 1. Creativity is a kind of work 2. Escape false constraints 3. Journals and self-respect
43. DOUBLE-TIME 1. Creativity is a kind of work 2. Escape false constraints 3. Journals and self-respect
50. IF YOU REMOVE FALSE CONSTRAINTS, NEW THINKING PATHS WILL BE OPEN TO YOU
51. •Idea Killers: “We tried that before” •Fatal criticism of young ideas •Groupthink vs. 1-on-1 pitches FALSE CONSTRAINTS LEADERS CREATE
52. 1. All ideas are made from other ideas 2. Great ideas look weird (at first) 3. We are naturally creative 4. Eliminate false constraints LESSON SUMMARY
54. THANK YOU. These slides: bit.ly/berkun-uxlx Get the book: danceotp.com Scott Berkun | scottberkun.com 
 August 2018 @ TuringFest