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Where do brilliant ideas come from? And, is it possible to do great work under pressure every single day? The Accidental Creative podcast explores how to stay prolific, brilliant and healthy in life and work as a creative pro. Host Todd Henry (author of the books The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, Louder Than Words, Herding Tigers, Daily Creative) interviews artists, authors and business leaders, and offers tips for how to thrive in life and work. Listen in and join the conversation at Acci ...
How do great leaders unleash their team to do its best and most creative work? Join Todd Henry (author of Herding Tigers and The Accidental Creative) and guests as they discuss what the talented, creative people on your team need from you, and how you can help them to be prolific, brilliant, and healthy.
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3 Things I Learned From James Cameron In Mexico
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James Cameron is a famous filmmaker known for his visionary approach and use of cutting-edge technology in cinema. Recently, we were both speakers at Festival de las Ideas in Puebla, Mexico, where he spoke about creativity and the creative process. On this episode, I share three big ideas that I drew from his speech that we can each apply to our wo…
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Creative Variance and Four Principles Of High Achievers
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What separates high achievers from everyone else? And perhaps more importantly for those who lead a team, how can you create an environment in which high achievers can thrive? On this episode Robert Glazer is here to share core principles from his new book Elevate Your Team. We discuss the four core capacities that high achieving people and teams e…
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The Four Workarounds (with Paulo Savaget)
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What do you do when you encounter a challenging problem that seems to have no immediate solution? Rather than simply pushing forward on the work in a traditional way, you might try to leverage a "workaround", or a less-direct method of solving the problem. Paulo Savaget has studied the tactics of many innovative organizations and has determined tha…
The stories you believe shape your everyday behavior, including your collaboration and your ability to generate new ideas. Have you ever paused to consider the stories that are actually playing in your head? In this episode, Michael Hyatt shares insights about how your mindset affects your leadership, your intuition, and even your ability to stay p…
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Say Yes, Then Figure It Out (with Jonah Markowitz)
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It's tempting to want everything to line up before you're willing to commit to a project or opportunity. However, most of the time the valuable opportunities are those for which you may not yet feel fully prepared. In this episode, I share an experience from this week and why I chose to say "yes", then figure it out later. Great opportunities rarel…
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Art, Mindset, and Creative Careers (with Anjali Bhimani)
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You can develop your skills and experience, but without the proper mindset it can be difficult to accomplish your goals. On this episode, we discuss the core reasons why mindset is so important to creativity, leadership, and overall health. Then, we interview actor and author Anjali Bhimani about her book I Am Fun Size, her career, and how to devel…
Most of us need good ideas consistently in order to do our work. Whatever your role, it's likely that it depends on your ability to solve problems consistently under pressure. But, where do those ideas come from? On today's show, I share a few ideas about the nature of emergent ideas - or what I call slowmergence. I share three questions that you s…
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Fall In Love With The Problem, Not The Solution
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There are some natural tensions that creative pros must wrestle with in order to remain effective. One that I wrote about in The Accidental Creative is what I call the process vs. product tension, which describes the dynamic of compromising the process in order to pre-maturely shape the product to match pre-defined expectations. Instead, we must em…
There are many things a good leader or collaborator does to help their team gain focus, stay motivated, and produce great work. However, there are also some very common mistakes that many leaders make that they don't even know are killing their team's ability to engage with their work. This is especially true when doing creative work, because it re…
I don’t like to say “no.” I think it’s partly because I tend to gravitate toward possibility rather than pragmatics. But that tendency to always look for new solutions has at times significantly hamstrung my creative process and has, in the past, seriously affected my ability to creatively lead teams. One of the most important disciplines that any …
Complexity can creep into your life and process largely unnoticed. Before long, you are attempting to leap hurdles and navigate around pointlessly complex obstacles just in order to do your work. On this episode, we discuss a few areas where you can seek simplicity in 2023 and some strategies for doing so: Your process and workflow Your relationshi…
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Managing Expectations (For Yourself and Your Team)
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So much conflict and stress in organizational life, or just in life in general, is the result of missed or conflicting expectations. Sometimes, this is because expectations are not clearly articulated and there is a vacuum that needs to be filled. Everyone is living out their own assumptions, which means that “ghost rules”, or invisible and possibl…
You probably need new ideas consistently in order to do your job. Where do they come from? If you're like many people, you push pixels, midlessly scroll, or stare at the problem or just hope that you have a breakthrough before time runs out. What if there's a better way? On this episode, I share a technique I use called "nonsense notebooks". I use …
Download a packet to help you answer all twelve questions in this series at ToddHenry.com/2023questions. If you don't set markers for growth you will drift. How will you be different this time next year? In this final episode of our three part series, I offer up four questions to ask as you make plans for the coming year. Mentioned in this episode:…
Download the packet to help you follow along with these questions at ToddHenry.com/2023questions. "The unexamined life is not worth living" is a saying attributed to Socrates. If you fail to understand why things happened the way they did, you are doomed to drift. In this episode, I offer four questions to ask as you look back at the past year that…
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The Way Of Integrity (with Dr. Martha Beck)
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In aerodynamics, when an airplane has structural integrity it means that all of the parts are working together as a whole. It is intact. If there is a violation of that structural integrity, you are likely to experience a problem. Similarly, integrity in our lives and leadership means that all of our individual parts are integrated, or intact and w…
In order to confront uncertainty every day, creative pros need to muster the ability to be clear even when they are not positive their idea is the right one. This requires bravery, because creative risk means the potential of failure. How do we as pros, as leaders, and as organizations foster an environment within which bravery is likely to occur? …
On this episode, I answer several questions sent in by listeners. Want to ask a question? If we use it I'll send you a Daily Creative t-shirt. Ask your questionHere's what we cover on today's episode: How do teams better take into account the execution of an idea at the moment when that idea is being selected? What principles from my books should t…
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Real Creative Leadership (with Adam Morgan)
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What does it take to lead talented, creative people effectively? This is an important question to all of us because either (a) we are in the position where we have to lead others every day and what they need from us is often a mystery, or (b) we are being led by someone and we really REALLY wish they understood us better. As you may know, I wrote a…
I was nine years old when my grandfather died. I still remember the funeral, not really understanding exactly what was happening, but knowing that I wasn’t going to get the chance ever again to throw football with, watch cartoons with, or make something cool with him ever again. Ever. That’s a tough concept for a nine year old to grasp. After the f…
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Time, Tranquility, and Effectiveness (with Laura Vanderkam)
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Time is the currency of productivity. How we spend it is - in effect - how we spend our lives. But often we can allow time to simply slip through our fingers and find that no matter how hard we may work, it feels like we’re simply falling behind. It’s almost like we’re running on a treadmill that someone occasionally comes and moves slightly closer…
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Ideas, Armpits, and Founding Grubhub (with Mike Evans)
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Some of the most effective ideas are those that solve a problem you are personally experiencing. If you have a need, it’s likely others have the same need as well. But often, we gloss over those moments of insight because it seems too daunting to act, or maybe we assume that someone else is probably working on it anyway. But, what if they’re not? W…
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The Only Business Metric That Matters (with Jeremy Utley)
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If you were to choose just one metric by which to measure your success, what would it be? Revenue? Well, we all know that revenue can be a tricky KPI because it doesn’t say anything about profitability. If I make a million dollars while spending two million, it doesn’t really mean much. Product shipped? Again, this doesn’t speak to the efficiency o…
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Building A Second Brain (with Tiago Forte)
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The stats on the amount of information we encounter each day are staggering. And, the effects on adult humans are substantial. Researchers estimate that the adult attention span has decreased by about 12 minutes in the past decade. You have an average of 70,000 thoughts in a day. According to research cited in an article in Fast Company, in 2011 Am…
