002-Three Creativity Principles Learned from High Tech Innovation [podcast]

In this episode Adam discusses lessons learned from writing and publishing his first e-book, support and encouragement for creative people and three valuable principles from technology innovation that can be applied to personal creativity.

 

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Creating this e-book was a learning process for me

Creativity Tip of the Week:

We must set out to create things in order to develop our creativity then we hone and learn as we go. I want to share six valuable lessons that I learned by writing my first e-book:

  1. Write the content first, edit it THEN insert into an e-book template. I got this order wrong and it cost me time and hassle.
  2. Always get the opinion of both editors and industry experts during the edit phase of the book.
  3. CreateSpace is a power and inexpensive tool for publishing books. I absolutely plan to use this service again and recommend you do the same.
  4. Be careful on Fiverr, take the time to research the people that you hire, I hired a logo person to make an info-graphic and wasted money and time.
  5. I learned practical tools like amazon links, Facebook ads, text widgets on WordPress, and how to write headlines that get clicks.
  6. Be prepared to budget your time, hours and hours. Up at 5 am was the only way I could have written this book. It was a very time-consuming project.

Creativity Foundations

Be very careful who you allow to support or encourage you.  Do not expect people who are not known for their supportive or encouraging nature to support or encourage you.  If you need the support and encouragement of others then intentionally surround yourself with that type of people.  Even if you need to hire or enter a quality mastermind group.

Also, be willing to support and encourage the creativity in others, you will reap the rewards if you do this.

Creativity Thoughts

High tech R&D and technology innovation teams are large-scale industrialized versions human creativity.  It is a creative process and there are many principles that can be applied to personal creativity, such as:

  • Optimism – paves the way for creativity
  • Teaching Yourself – one of the most important skills of adulthood.
  • Collaboration – collaboration makes us better and faster creators both corporate and individually.

We should view science as not the unquestionable opinion of academics but as one of the most productive and effective forms of human creativity.

“tap the source of intuitive wisdom and follow the trail that inexplicable knowing that you cannot logically explain…” – Lina Echeveria

What principle optimism, self-teaching or collaboration is the most critical to human creativity?

Secret Tips to Thinking Like a Scientist…and why you would want to

Scientists enjoy a special place in society, I think that sometimes television pushes an unquestionable persona for scientists.  The truth is scientists are just like everyone else in society.  They struggle with the same issues, the same frustrations, they have the same political leanings and conflicts. So this “know everything” persona I think is a well constructed fantasy.

A good scientist is a professional learner.  Science is a learning technique, not a group of unquestionable elites or opinionated professors. A good scientist is a benevolent pursuer of knowledge who learns, teaches and then creates useful things and understanding with his/her knowledge.

Non-scientists can learn to use the tool of science to gain understanding and to even create new things by understanding the following four secret tips.  I call these secret only because you wont learn most of  these by listening to societal ideals of the scientist and if you’re not a practitioner of science you may not think of these.

  1. Respectfully question everything, we are becoming too trusting in this society, especially of government and of scientists.  It is ok to challenge people when they try to persuade you to something.   Even the most intelligent people in the world do not know far more than they do know and they often make bad assumptions.  Start to challenge people, start to look for assumptions and respectfully call people out on them.  Start to challenge what is taught, this is healthy if its done not a in a rebellious defiant way but in a curious learning way. If a person can not explain something then chances are they don’t really understand it.
  2. Begin to research, other people have learned and have documented a great deal of knowledge, choose your topic and start researching, compile a note-book on a topic and start to collect information.
  3. Realize that anyone can learn by experimenting:  Experimentation is a powerful process of learning new things, we don’t always need to be taught new things by other people.  We can press into the unknown and create our own knowledge. Identify a problem that you or others are facing, develop several hypothesis as to what is causing the problem or issue and what might solve it, then determine to test the hypothesis and try to prove or disprove them.
  4. Start Your Experiments and Pay Attention: After you start experimenting pay close attention, there is much to be learned by observation. Enjoy the process of learning and don’t get too uptight about it.

Why Would You Want to Do this:

Simply put; a lot of the information out there to solve our problems or to understand reality is just not reliable.

For example, a great deal of the medical community in the US is based on medical science alone.  There are other health care sciences that may be a much better solution to your medical problem. However for financial and often political reasons most of the time only medicine (chemicals) are pushed as the solution which often only mask symptoms.

Another example, a child may be struggling with learning, the public school may or not be able to help this child, what often happens is the parent just trustingly listens to the counsel of a misguided administrator, takes the child to a doctor who diagnoses a syndrome then medicates.  When all the child really needed was special attention from a parent or loving teacher.

I could give dozens of other examples that drive me nuts however my main point is don’t just accept what is fed to you as your solution, become a learner, if at all possible experiment for yourself, research for yourself, you might find that you can solve your problems in a better way by just thinking like a scientist rather than like a trusting child. Of course I am not suggesting you experiment with medicine, I am suggesting however that we take it upon ourselves to understand and sometimes experiment as a means of learning.

Remember to teach as you go to help others benefit from your knowledge.

How do you think like a scientist? leave comment below

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All systems still go for the Collaboration e-book and Creativity course, the e-book is at the editor and the Course content creation is underway.  This process is taking longer than I expected but daily progress is being made.

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