Be creative, on purpose.
Creative experts share this space with Trevor, Education Eddy and you, to prepare you for Creative Problem Solving, whenever you need it.
Interviews with Creativity experts and occasional celebrity guests. Length will vary. Releases weekly. Offer tools, resources, tips and discounts on creativity focused things.
Some cursing may pop-up, but is meant to be a cleaner-than-not segment. Look for "explicit" labels on specific episodes that may not be suitable around little ones.
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Be creative, on purpose.
Creative experts share this space with Trevor, Education Eddy and you, to prepare you for Creative Problem Solving, whenever you need it.
Interviews with Creativity experts and occasional celebrity guests. Length will vary. Releases weekly. Offer tools, resources, tips and discounts on creativity focused things.
Some cursing may pop-up, but is meant to be a cleaner-than-not segment. Look for "explicit" labels on specific episodes that may not be suitable around little ones.
Thank You for Listening!
Hello and welcome to Creativity On Demand. I am the host of this show and the founder of Common Leaders. My name is Trevor, This segment. Which will be a frequent one, and I'm so excited to talk to you about it. Again, it's called Creativity on Demand. It will be hosted on the Common Leaders Podcast and it will also be hosted on the common leaders part, the channel of Pneumos Spec Media, which is also my company. We have an app called the NumoSpect Media app, so please download that if you're into apps and notifications and all that cool business creativity on. Let's talk about it. We're gonna jump in. Today's gonna be a super short episode because I am not the foremost expert in creativity, but I do love talking about it. Creativity on demand is meant to be an urgent thing. There will be a common theme with Trevor Tommy and media, and it is urgent. I love to get into things before I lose motivation and energy to do so. I'm also super transparent and I suck at the back end of the creative process, and maybe that's a good place to start. Creative process is a real thing. Intentional creativity is a real thing. Being creative on purpose is a real thing. It's a thing that people have studied. It's a thing that psychologists and sociologists and, and the people who study people things in biology and math, there are all types of. Of true, understood and grounded professions that have studied creativity and the science of creativity. I am not the only one who is talking about it. It is a, a truly big deal, because it crosses boundaries in the same way that all those other professionals have studied creativity. I am a creative professional and I study those things too. Creativity is, is. In a similar way of sociology or psychology or, or mathematics or most any field where you can take it and reapply it almost anywhere in life, whether that be in a professional or organizational structure, whether that be in our day to day life, whether that be in our community, gathering places such as churches and, and, not for profits and go clean up the beach days. All of these types of things wrap in both the science. In the study and the research, but also the application of creativity. So we're gonna talk a little bit about all of it, in this show. And how I'm gonna facilitate that is by inviting creative experts to come on and talk to me about it. I have a master's degree in creativity. It's true, it's technically, I think it's a Master's in Creative Studies. Some people say it's a masters in creative studies and change leadership. I think they've maybe even updated it to be a master's in Applied imagination. Either way. It's something I have a background and I have some access to resources in. And I also wanna explore outside of that. I went to Buffalo State College at the International Center for Studies and Creativity. Now I believe it's the Center for Applied Imagination, and they are the first program in the world that teaches such things. They're not the only ones anymore. There's a big program at Drexel, and I know there's multiple others, and I also know that there's creative leadership programs and creative science programs all over the country. So we're gonna seek out a variety of topics and opinions to really help you and I become more creatively adept, to become more intentionally creative, to become more prepared, because, gosh, being prepared. Is the best way to be ready. Frequently, we don't know in our life especially outside of the professional world where we're gonna have a chance to apply our creative selves. so I think being prepared with some process and some key words and some key principles is gonna be really, really helpful because that way when that moment strikes and maybe you're deer in the headlights and you don't know what to do, that is your moment to whip out your creativity and blow everybody's mind. So we're gonna do our best to get you prepared for that. I'm gonna do my best to. To give you the resources and tools that I already have access to and that I already know and that I already like to talk about and think about and look. And now we're gonna bring in a lot of people to, to enhance that, we're gonna be introducing a character called Education Eddie. Education Eddie is gonna be somebody who comes in with some hyper technical, is gonna be a character, and it's gonna be hyper technical for a minute or two each episode. And that hyper technical piece is gonna take you probably deeper than you are comfortable with in many cases. if you're a casual user of creativity, if you are more of an expert of creativity, it may not push you that far. And I apologize if it doesn't and I want that feedback. Tell us what we can do more of. But for the average user, and I'm talking like me before I went to school for it, which is most people, it's for. The mom that balances a ton of things. It's for the dad that balances a ton of things. For those of us who are professionals, who are spouses, who are sons, who are daughters, who are significant, others who are partners, who are people just trying to get by. Creativity is something we have maybe had removed from us in terms. How able we think we are and, and I'm here to tell you that you still have it, but what I'm also gonna do is hopefully help get you some tools and resources and mindsets that are gonna help you access that more, more frequently and more. It will, That is how we talked about it when I went to to college for it to talk about creativity is with intention. That it is deliberate. Creativity does happen sporadically and by inspiration, and that is fine and dandy. That's fun too. But there are other moments in life where it is very, very helpful to have a process so that we can do creativity on purpose. And I'm excited to show you into that world. I think it's a wonderful life skill. We called it creative problem solving. It goes by many names, but that's what we're gonna get into here is, is creative problem solving is, is problem solving with creativity is coming up with creative ideas being. Purpose. Let's do it. Graphic is gonna be an interactive show. I'm gonna throw stuff at you and then I'm gonna wrap it all up at the end. It's going to be intentional, is what the word I'll come back to. It will be formatted very specifically. Today is not that day. On an average day, when we talk intentional creativity, it's gonna come with a structure. I mean, this doesn't mean much to you yet. We're gonna talk technique too, and I'm gonna show you technique and our experts are gonna show us techniques that will help us learn better. That will help us retain better because I think one of the biggest issues with being intentionally creative or or anything intentionally is that it's hard to remember things. It's hard to have cues so that in the heat of the moment, we are still able to function how we wanna function. And I have been exposed to people who know how to help you. I mean, just plain and simple. I have read books on how to remember more effectively, and we're gonna twist that in because I don't wanna give you a skill. I don't wanna give you a tool. I don't want one of our guests to spend their time giving you a tool or a skill if it's not also applicable. And it's not applicable if you can't remember it. So we're gonna talk about it. We're gonna embed it in your head in all the best ways. And, and I'll introduce the model today. Let's, let's go through it. So this is the model of how I anticipate introducing concepts to you or to us, and how I will twist our guests through it so that we can actually end with, hopefully something that we can retain without too much effort, because anybody can write a note, but I think that life is probably more than sticky notes, in terms of retention. So let's talk a little bit about retention for a moment. And then we'll, we'll probably wrap pretty shortly after that. These episodes are gonna be 20 to 30, maybe 40 minutes long, depending on who we have on. But we're gonna keep'em pretty, pretty terse, pretty to point, pretty tight. Because I want you to be able to access this and going too far is a great way to, A, run myself dry and b, bore you to death. Here is my working model. It may change. This is based on what I've studied, what I've read, what I was taught in school, but it's probably not perfect. So in terms of helping to retain concepts, We will introduce a concept or a behavior or a goal, I guess a, a synthesis at the beginning of each show will say, Today we're gonna talk about habits. Like I have an episode of last season of the Common Leader's Podcast. It's just about habits. It's about 20, it's not true, it's five minutes long. And it's based loosely, actually pretty strongly on the Charles Duhig book of the same title. So that would be an example of our theme of the day is habits. That would be our behavior or our concept. Where we start, I'm gonna give you a little bit of literature. Sounds like a fancy word. I'm gonna give you a quote. I'm gonna give you a concept. I'm gonna give you something a little bit inspiring to make you start thinking. Then throughout the show I'm gonna tie in some sounds, some sounds that are, Maybe research has told us helpful when it comes to ingraining habits or helpful when it comes to setting a mood or a tone or an environment that encourages remembering things because sound does that for us. Another sense that does that is smell. So I will introduce I will introduce things that you can find around your house or purchase rather cheaply to help improve the environ. To accomplish whatever it is that we're trying to accomplish. So again, using habits as an example, having a smell associated with your sound and with your inspirational quote and your behavior or your concept is gonna help you remember that concept. Because if you're having trouble or you're getting ready for it, you can queue up that sound. You can queue up that smell, you can go look at that quote. Those are all things to help you trigger what it is that we talked about during the episode. The last big piece before we really wrap it all together, We're keeping as simple as the visual cue, so we have video. If you're listening to this exclusively, I will find a way to hyperlink you to a cue, a visual cue, because. Again, another sensory piece that we can tie in is that visual, touch is maybe something we'll get into. I forgot that one. We'll see if we can tie that in. I'm sure there's somebody who can help me understand how to do that, but maybe that would replace the visual cue at times is, is the touch, the feeling of something. But the visual cue will be just another place. It will be simple, most likely, but it will be another queue. So we're talk a lot about cues to help you remember what we did in that episode. So that episode will not only be tied to a title, it will be tied to, a quote that is fun. It will be tied to a sound that is helpful. It'll be tied to a smell that will get you a little fired up about it, and then we'll wrap it together in terms of cues with a visual in the same way that, like when I went to school, I rode the bus. There was a picture on the side of the bus, so I think I rode Bus two 12 for most of my life. And I don't remember what the animal on it was, to be completely honest with you, but for little kids, I know that it helps to know that I ride the goofy bus. That would've been probably a dated reference, or maybe the Mickey Mouse bus or maybe the Tasmanian Devil Bus. We'll give you that cue to help you associate that will be either themed and related to the concept, or very simply, directly tied to a brain science piece that will help you remember. So again, just to, before we move on to this, to this last bow that will pull this all together, we have a title to the episode or a concept or a behavior, something that is our main synthesized goal. Whatever we're gonna talk about, we'll have a quote or some literature or something to, to help you get a little inspired from a verbal and from a a written standpoint. We'll go to a sound. We'll give you a little sound to start associating with it, and we'll tie it back again. And then we're gonna do the smell. We're gonna say, Go smell some lavender, or go smell some coffee, or go smell some whatever. And that's gonna tie it back to that principle we started with. It's gonna tie it to that quote we started with. It's gonna tie it to the sound we started with, and we'll go to the visual or the feeling element, which is now gonna give us a really close to a three dimensional way to queue up the memory. That was what we talked about, Hopefully. And then the last piece is really the only piece I personally care about. I do the rest because they're effective. Don't get me wrong, but we're gonna practice it. We're gonna bring it all together with a little practice. We're gonna do it live. We're gonna exercise it live, and then I'm gonna send you with something that you can exercise it with, by yourself. So we'll ask that of our guests too, is to make sure they're bringing something that you can tangibly take out the door with you, the digital door, to ensure that you have a place where you. Go to your journal to practice it or practice it the next day at work, because none of this is really useful if it's not practical, and applicable. So again, just to tie it all together, we're gonna start with the concept, the title. We'll go to the quote, we'll go to the sound, we'll go to the smell, we'll go to the visual or touch or the feel, and then we'll go practice it together, and then we'll. With a mission, with an action step, with how we're gonna go apply that. We'll end with a lot of gratitude like I'm about to do now, and that will be the episode. So creativity on demand, that is a quick overview of what we're getting into here. I am beyond excited. I'm really grateful to my Pneumo spec partner, Brie, who really a couple days ago, Reminded me of how much I think about creativity. And I talk to myself about it in my head all the time, but I don't talk outwardly about the study of creativity very often. And I don't know why. I think I've, I've, I've lost a little edge in that area. So part of this is really selfish. I just wanna get experts to come back on to get me fired back up about it. Creative problem solving is gonna, is gonna solve the world. It's gonna change the world. It already does all the time. So, in order for you to. Impactful to your people, to your community, to your followers, to your mentors, to your mentees, to the people around you, both at work and at home and out and about. It helps to have some process to go along with such a wonderful concept as creativity. I will quickly. Just queue up a reason that you should care about creativity, and I'll also link it to the YouTube video. There was a Ted Talk done, several, many years ago at this point by my former, college graduate advisor, Gerard Puccio. Dr. Puccio. And if you've never seen Gerard Puccio Ted Talk, highly recommend listening to it. It's about creativity and. It's usefulness in the world, and he's as, as good as anybody explaining the, the nature of deliberate creativity because he's been talking about it for a long time and he learned from, from the original people to study it. He's one of, of a few people that I had the honor, the true honor to learn from who were second generation in the field. So they learned from the original people to study at a, at a really finite level. Um, and he says in that video and talks in that video that Ted talk about the importance of tools in human evolution in the advancement of humans, and how we went really hundreds of thousands and probably millions of years with very few huge, I guess what you call huge advancements, like big advancements that really change the nature of how. Humans in a society can live. So one of those would've been like an ax or a thing to grind with, right? Like the pest, I think is what it's called. Those are examples of early tools and eventually we had like things that you could saw with, or people would take a piece of bone and use it for an arrow or a sharp stone in used. Make it into an arrow, which you needed other tools for. So those type of advancements were really, critical to the human race, I guess you'd say. Continuing to move forward and to be present and accounted for in this earth. However, there was only a few of those pretty big innovations for a long time, and we live in a world now where that changes so rapidly, not only because there are more people and more access, but also because we can collaborate like we can now over. Internet over phone, over text, over social media. Oh my gosh. There's so many ways that we can share our creative insights and share our creative creations. And it's wonderful because it pushes us really, really far. And, and I'm telling you, if you don't have that skill, it's gonna be harder to do the things you wanna do in life and to accomplish what you wanna accomplish, to make the, It's not all about money, but if you need money to survive, like I. It's gonna be critical to making more money. So you having some creative problem solving skills is something I can all but assure you is going to actually pay dividends for you. It's gonna actually pay you back by learning and employing some skills, and I hope to facilitate that. I hope to facilitate connecting you to creative experts so that you can have more tools in your toolbox and therefore go forth and prosper. Change the world. Change the world that you live in. Change the world of the people around you. Change the world that we all live in. Go change the world. In creative problem solving, creativity, intentional creativity, creativity on purpose, creativity on demand is gonna help you do it So, uh, it's my silliness aside. I'm hoping this is one of the few episodes where I'm solo and without tools and resources to share, but I want to introduce the concept today. Um, get it out in the world, make it real, and ask you that if you know somebody who fancies themself, a creative expert, or if you are a creative expert, join me. Come tell me about what you're up. Make me sit back and listen. I'll ask you questions. I will make you feel like a rockstar. I will ensure that everybody knows you're a rockstar, and most importantly, I really, really wanna squeeze a little knowledge out of you and share it with the world if we can. thank you so much for listening to this. Thank you so much for considering joining me. Again, many of these will be live and I am beyond grateful. I mean, I live in a world of gratefulness and it. Thousand percent authentic. I spend a lot of time just reflecting on how, how Flipp and lucky I am, how fortunate I am. Some people say blessed. I'm not about that, but whatever word you use to convey gratefulness and gratitude. That's how I feel right now. If you're listening to my words, that's a big deal to me. If you consider joining me on the show or subscribing to the show or listening ever again, that's more than I could ever ask for. Your time is all I can ask for, and I'm super grateful for it. Have a great rest of your day. Have a great rest of whatever you're up to. yeah, come back and join for some more creativity on demand. Talk soon.