10 Episodes
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70 Minutes
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English
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Self-Paced
Micro-Learning
Target Audience
About This Season
Dive into a journey that explores the science and practice of creativity, revealing how it can be reignited at any stage of life. Learn why creativity often feels elusive and discover the brain’s role in this phenomenon. Through engaging episodes, you’ll uncover the hidden potential of your brain to think creatively, understand the developmental changes that affect creativity, and learn exercises designed to stimulate innovative thinking. Embrace curiosity, break free from conventional thinking, and reawaken your innate creative abilities. This season offers a comprehensive guide to making creativity a tangible and rewarding part of your everyday life.
What You'll Learn
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The neuroscience behind creativity and cognitive function.
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How to reactivate your creative potential at any age.
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Techniques to overcome mental blocks and foster innovation.
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Practical exercises to integrate creativity into everyday life.
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Unlock the secrets of your brain and rediscover the joy of creativity. This season guides you through understanding, practicing, and mastering the art of creative thinking. Embrace curiosity, challenge conventions, and transform your life with renewed imaginative power. Join us on this journey and reignite your creative spark today.
Episodes
Episode 1: Introduction
Understanding the decline in creativity and methods to rekindle it.
Exploring personal experiences of losing creativity.
The role of social approval in the creative shutdown.
Neuroplasticity and the potential for creative reactivation.
Episode 2: Brain Basics, Part 1
Overview of the brain’s structure and its functions.
How different brain regions contribute to creativity.
Debunking myths about the permanent loss of creativity.
Episode 3: Brain Basics, Part 2
Developmental changes in the brain from childhood to adulthood.
Impact of conventional thinking on the right hemisphere.
Experiencing different thinking modes to enhance creativity.
Episode 4: Exercises, Flexercises
Mental games to activate creative processes.
Product Scramble for innovative thinking.
Random Story Generator for narrative creativity.
Persona Play to break through biases.
Episode 5: When Questions Are the Answer
The importance of curiosity in creativity.
Distinguishing between fast, factual answers and deep, insightful ones.
Techniques for fostering a curious mindset.
Episode 6: Curiosity: A Team Sport
Building creative teams and avoiding groupthink.
Frameworks for psychological safety and values-based motivation.
Examples from Silicon Valley and beyond.
Episode 7: The Psychology of Creative Motivation
The role of psychological safety in creativity.
Using the CARE Compass for team creativity.
Addressing common creativity blockers in the workplace.
Episode 8: Creative Mindsets, Part 2
Additional practices for removing creative roadblocks.
Investing in risk and innovation.
Implementing “Monk Mode Mornings” for deep thinking.
Honoring failure as a path to creative success.
Episode 9: Home Stretch
Brain hacks for enhancing creativity.
Using vision shifts and voice equalization for better ideas.
The importance of writing and focus in creative processes.
Episode 10: The Creative Uplift
Reflecting on changes experienced during the season.
Continuous practice of curiosity and creativity.
Encouragement to take small steps towards creative breakthroughs.
About the Speaker
Bestselling author, neuroscience educator, innovation expert, and organizational guide: Ellen Petry Leanse has been pushing the edges of what's possible in human potential for four decades. A Silicon Valley veteran and Stanford University instructor and alum of early Apple, Google, entrepreneurship and strategic work with dozens of tech founders and household-name companies, Ellen stepped into the forefront of innovation in 1985 as a digital pioneer and the founder of Apple's first online communities. Since then she has mastered a unique understanding of neuroscience and its role in building both business success and life satisfaction. An award winning technology leader, teacher, coach, and author of The Happiness Hack – a bestselling guide to the neuroscience of mindfulness – Ellen is committed to new ways of thinking about work and its role in an evolving future. Her credentials include success in the C-Suite of a leading AI innovator, Board and Advisory roles at non-profits and public benefit companies, and collaborations with global companies committed to acheiving outlier success.
