creativity – Page 8 – Andrew Zahn

Ideas Are Like Dreams, Unless…

Taking Mr. Sinek’s advice, here are some of the creative projects I’m working on…

The “Ten Commandments for Creatives” is coming along nicely. See that little book over in the right hand corner of the sidebar? Yup! (click here if you want free previews of the book as they’re available)
Filming a project at my day job for a company-wide training on manners and respect.
Finishing up reading The $100 Startup (affiliate link) and loving it!
Redesigning this blog myself (eek!) and making more videos like this one to help people customize and design their own blogs using the same theme I use on this blog. Continue reading “Ideas Are Like Dreams, Unless…”

The Age of Interesting

[box options]Two million blog posts are written and introduced to the world every single day.*[/box]

That statistic may haunt us. We ask ourselves “how will my voice be heard?” What’s a creative to do?

Be louder?
Work harder?
Stop sleeping and start tweeting?

There’s a silver lining. The beauty of the voluminous amount of new content available on a daily basis is that those who are interesting win. Those who bend the spoon in a new direction, take the road less traveled, and break the rules from time to time gain the edge. Continue reading “The Age of Interesting”

Keep it Simple Einstein

Beautiful simplicity…

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Five Winning Mistakes

[box options]“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein[/box]

1. Fall Down

Remember the first time you rode a bike? You fell, right? How did you learn to ride? By falling.

How do we learn to get better? By getting back up… and falling again.

2. Quit

Sometimes you have to say no to something to make space for something even better. Continue reading “Five Winning Mistakes”

The Forgotten Core of the Creative Process

[box options]This is a guest post from Jared Latigo. Jared is a writer, husband, father and stellar designer. After reading his post, head on over to his site www.JaredLatigo.com and follow him on Twitter. You’ll be glad you did.[/box]

When we think of the creative process, we tend to lean toward a list of things we need to do in order to refine that process. But we leave out an important part. That important part is the core of building who we are as a creative, or any professional for that matter.

The thing we tend to leave out is training. We must learn to be a life learner to train for the day when we do have power and ability to influence others through our work and passions. This cannot be changed.

[108_365] Ill-advised | Flickr - Photo Sharing! — Ill-advised – Photo Credit: pasukaru76

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A Cheating Blogger Comes Clean

I’ve a bit of a secret… several secrets actually.

I’ve been cheating on you, dear reader.

I’ve been moonlighting on several other sites and I just have to come clean.

Site One

My wife and I run a vblog/blog together deftly titled A Couple Comments. The pitch: us commenting on nouns (we go places, we see people, we do things).

Then we comment about it.

In the past we’ve reviewed Greek yogurt, airports, and now we’re taking you to the redwoods of Muir Woods, California. Continue reading “A Cheating Blogger Comes Clean”