Kaizen Creativity: The Science of Creativity & Innovation

Your brain has an awesome survival feature that lets it focus on problems, but in the modern age it can trigger negative emotions and stress. Here's how negative moods affect creativity and how to get the most out of the creative process, regardless of mood.

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Where does motivation come from, how can we get more of it, and how can we ensure that we don’t waste it?

How are AI researchers avoiding a robot apocalypse? Discover how the Law of Unintended Consequences creates "Frankenstein Solutions" in our creativity.

How do we teach computers to be creative? Discover how an AI is trained to do tasks, both creative and otherwise. 

As your creating today, think about how this strategy for getting feedback could help you. Remember that how you ask for feedback influences the responses you get. If you want objective feedback, then you need to ask questions in a way that makes it comfortable for people to respond to you. 

Creative people are sensitive to problems, but that’s a good thing. Most people are confronted with a problem and they choose to ignore it. Others have smaller problems that they don’t even consciously recognize are problems. Creativity thrives when there are problems. They guide our creative behavior. They teach us what we need to do. They show us what needs or attention… and they inspire us to take action. What’s more, they effec...

How do you convince people to value your creation when they just learned what it is? Innovations are solutions to problems.

One of my secret passions is game design. I love watching YouTube videos about how games are made and why game developers made the decisions that they did. The topic for this episode was inspired by 2 YouTube channels that explain video game design really well. One is Adam Millard, who has the Architect of Games. The other is Mark Brown, who has Game Makers Toolkit. Even if you’re not designing a video game yourself, there’s a lot ...

When we deal with creativity blocks on this show, we’ve generally talked about procrastination because that’s an area where many people struggle. In this episode, I want to talk about another important way we block ourselves: Not being willing to put down the wrong tool. Relying on the wrong thinking strategy to solve a problem is a recipe for frustration. It seems like such an easy fix, yet it’s incredibly difficult to both realiz...

Long before he was the world’s most famous scientist, Einstein use to sit on the bus and imagine what would happen if the bus traveled at the speed of light. His curious nature was responsible for the bizarre thought experiments he loved so much, and his continued curiosity is what motivated him to keep playing with the ideas for long periods of time.

As your creating this week, pay special attention to the parts of the process you love. This is one of the best motivational techniques you can use. There’s no better way to start your creative process then with a burst of positive emotions.

Daydreaming is fun. If you’re a creative person, it’s also surprisingly productive. So why don’t we do it more often? The short answer is ego.