Building Community and Finding Personality Strengths as a Creative Introvert, with Designer Cat Rose

Cat Rose (@CreativeIntro) is an independent graphic designer and founder of The Creative Introvert, a website and community for creative professions who share introverted personality types.

In this conversation, we discuss the oddities of life as a freelance designer, the observed behaviour of creative pros and where they fall on the introverted/extroverted continuum, and the challenges of building online communities and creating compelling content.

 

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Show Notes & Links

• Cat lives in Brighton, England
• Prescott has visited Brighton, as well as Rottingdean, and the University of Sussex
• Farnham, a picturesque town in Surrey with a 10th century castle [av_video src='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxTrwF3rbrE' format='16-9' width='16' height='9']
• Cat remains a graphic designer, started as an illustrator
• Behance
• Spaghetti code
• Cat draws people's pets
• Prescott chatted with Matt Inglot on The Freelance Transformation Podcast
• Flash (dead in name only)
• How to use Sketch for print design (if you're a complete animal.)
• InDesign and Illustrator aren't great for pixel design
• "Leg It"
• The Irish Goodbye
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, system for determining personality types
• The Big Five personality traits, aka the Five Factor Model (FFM)
• Introvert-Extrovert spectrum
• Ambivert (both introvert and extrovert)
• Brighton Pride parade, a most extroverted affair
• People with "I" in their Myers-Briggs result aren't considered for management roles
• Would you ever go to the movies by yourself?
• Bill Gates, a well-known, successful introvert
• Empathy is an introvert super-power, as are deep though, analysis, etc.
• Limiting self-beliefs, rather than introversion per se is what holds people back
• Get Your Art Out Summer Camp, a four-week course from The Creative Introvert
• Learning styles (visual, written, auditory, etc.)
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