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You’re NOT Uncreative. You’re Just OUT OF PRACTICE (S5) S39:E1 Saturday · Inspirations for Your Life

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  Well, hello there, everyone, and welcome to a
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  So everyone, welcome to another episode of the
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  ever-popular Inspirations For Your Life show.
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  I am John C.
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  Morley.
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  I'm a serial entrepreneur.
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  I'm an engineer, a marketing specialist, video producer,
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  podcast host, coach, passionate lifelong learner, graduate student
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  at Montclair State University, and so grateful now
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  to be a published author.
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  So today, starting a brand new week focused
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  on creativity.
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  So we start on Saturday and we finish
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  up on a Friday.
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  Our weeks don't start on Monday.
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  We just decided to start them on Saturday.
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  I just had that idea many, many years
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  ago that I would just start my weeks
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  off on a Saturday.
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  It's just a nice way to start and
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  ends on Friday.
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  All right.
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  So we have this new topic, right?
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  Focused on creativity.
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  And I want to challenge something maybe you've
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  said about yourself.
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  I'm just not creative.
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  I don't believe creativity belongs only to artists,
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  musicians, writers, or designers.
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  Creativity appears whenever you solve a problem, notice
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  a possibility, ask a different question, or find
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  another way forward.
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  Maybe you didn't lose your creativity.
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  Maybe you simply stopped exercising it.
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  Let's get into our 30 points for today.
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  Number one, creativity isn't reserved for artists.
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  That's a misnomer.
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  Creativity is much bigger than painting a picture
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  or writing a song.
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  Entrepreneurs use it.
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  Engineers use it.
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  Parents use it.
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  Students use it.
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  Anyone who finds a new solution to a
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  problem is exercising creativity.
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  So we have to embrace creativity and celebrate
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  it because when we do that, we become
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  more creative.
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  Number two, you solve problems creatively every day.
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  Did you know that?
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  Yep.
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  You do that every single day, right?
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  So think about the little adjustments you make
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  when something doesn't work right.
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  You adapt.
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  You change the plan.
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  You improvise.
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  You rearrange something or you find another way
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  or route, right?
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  That's what happens when there's an accident on
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  the highway.
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  You figure out, well, how do I get
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  off and where else can I go to
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  get there?
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  That's creativity happening in ordinary life real time.
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  Number three, stop saying you're not a creative
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  person.
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  Be careful with the labels you repeatedly give
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  yourself.
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  If you constantly say you're not creative, you
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  may stop looking for evidence that you are.
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  Change the question from, am I creative to
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  how can I use my creativity here?
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  I think that's a good question.
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  Number four, creativity begins with curiosity.
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  Curiosity asks why, why not?
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  And what if?
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  Instead of immediately accepting something as it is,
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  become interested in how it works and what
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  might happen if you changed it.
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  All right.
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  Number five, ask more questions about ordinary things.
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  This is one that sends people for a
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  loop oftentimes.
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  Look at something you use every day and
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  ask why it works that way.
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  Could it be easier, faster, clearer, or more
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  enjoyable?
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  Ordinary questions can lead to extraordinary ideas.
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  Number six, look for possibilities other people often
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  overlook.
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  Sometimes everybody is looking at the same problem
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  from the same direction.
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  Creativity can begin when you move mentally to
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  another side and notice something everyone else walked
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  past.
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  Number seven, your experience gives you a unique
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  perspective.
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  Nobody has lived your exact combination of experiences.
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  What you learned, built, observed, failed at, enjoyed,
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  and questioned gives you material for ideas that
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  won't emerge exactly the same way from somebody
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  else.
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  Number eight, creativity often starts with noticing.
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  Yes, noticing.
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  Before creating something new, learn to notice what's
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  already happening.
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  Observe the details.
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  Listen carefully.
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  Pay attention to patterns.
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  The person who notices what everyone else ignores
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  may soon discover an opportunity everyone else misses.
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  Pay attention, ladies and gentlemen, number nine, to
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  what bothers you.
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  Frustration can contain useful information.
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  When something repeatedly annoys you, don't only complain
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  about it.
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  Ask why it bothers you and whether there
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  might be a better way to go about
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  doing it, okay?
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  Number 10, problems can become invitations to create.
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  I like to consider problems challenges.
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  A problem isn't always merely an obstacle.
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  Sometimes it's an invitation to invent, redesign, improve,
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  simplify, or rethink something.
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  Ask what the problem is inviting you to
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  create.
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  Number 11, you don't need permission to have
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  an idea.
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  You don't need a title, degree, committee, audience,
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  or approval before you're allowed to think differently.
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  Ideas, ladies and gentlemen, in case you didn't
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  know, they're free.
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  Give yourself permission to explore yours.
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  And I think when you start discovering this,
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  you're going to realize that you're more creative.
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  You're more resourceful than you thought you were.
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  That's a key thing I think we need
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  to pay attention to.
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  Number 12, stop judging ideas before you've even
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  had a chance to explore them or investigate
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  them.
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  We often kill ideas seconds after they appear.
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  That's stupid.
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  That won't work.
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  Someone probably already did it.
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  Slow down.
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  Explore the idea before putting it on trial.
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  Maybe there is a caveat of the idea
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  that you haven't quite explored yet.
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  But just because of that knee-jerk reaction,
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  oh, it won't work, it'll fail, give it
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  a chance.
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  Number 13, give curiosity somewhere to go.
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  Give it an outlet.
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  Curiosity without action disappears quickly.
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  Research something, sketch it, write it down, build
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  a rough version, ask somebody a question.
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  Give that spark somewhere to travel, somewhere to
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  go.
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  And when we do that, you know what
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  we're going to find?
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  There's a pathway.
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  There's this energy that forms that gets us
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  to ask more questions and come up with
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  more amazing answers.
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  Number 14, creativity grows when you experiment.
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  Thinking matters, but experimentation teaches you things thinking
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  alone cannot.
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  Try the idea, change one variable, see what
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  happens.
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  Creativity grows when ideas encounter reality.
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  Number 15, try something without knowing the outcome.
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  Not knowing exactly what will happen is part
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  of creativity.
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  If you already know every step and every
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  result, you're mostly following instructions or a procedure
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  like a standard operating procedure.
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  Occasionally, give yourself permission to explore a different
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  pathway.
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  You see, when we follow a recipe, when
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  we follow an SOP, which we do a
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  lot of times because people before us might
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  have tested it and there's a proven way
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  that's cost-effective that was achieved from a
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  cost-benefits analysis.
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  We keep doing it that way, but maybe
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  there's something else that we could do and
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  we're afraid to try it.
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  Now, SOPs maybe can't be changed, but you
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  might find, you know, if we did this
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  and this, it could improve.
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  And you could suggest that to your manager,
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  to your boss, what have you, right?
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  Those are important things.
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  SOPs are great to keep us on track,
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  but it is important to explore new opportunities,
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  okay?
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  I think that's a real important thing that
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  many people miss today.
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  Number 16, stop needing every idea to be
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  useful immediately.
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  It won't.
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  It's going to frustrate you.
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  Some ideas won't become anything.
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  That's okay.
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  An idea can teach you something, lead to
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  another idea, or simply exercise your imagination.
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  Immediate usefulness isn't the only measure of value
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  that we have.
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  Although it seems like that's what most people
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  want.
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  They want the quick fix.
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  They want the, you know, slap it on
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  and be done.
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  They want the instant gratification.
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  But we've learned in the past that instant
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  gratification doesn't always get us somewhere.
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  Usually gets us into more trouble than we
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  are bargaining for.
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  So that's an important thing.
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  And we have to accept the fact that
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  some ideas won't, you know, become something.
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  You know, maybe you get an idea.
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  You get an inspiration.
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  But maybe it dies.
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  Hopefully you get another idea.
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  So the whole thing is not to finish
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  with just one and done.
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  You want to explore it.
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  You want to say, gee, what's going on
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  with that?
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  Number 17, play.
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  Creatively play.
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  Play creates possibilities.
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  Adults sometimes become so focused on productivity that
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  we often forget how powerful play can be
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  in our lives.
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  Experiment without pressure.
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  Rearrange things.
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  Try combinations.
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  Ask ridiculous questions.
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  Play can loosen things that became too rigid.
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  When we play, we're able to just be
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  ourselves.
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  We're able to explore other possibilities.
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  Play sometimes becomes hard because we need to
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  be a little vulnerable to play.
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  Well, we can play just ourselves and then
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  share once we've had a chance to explore
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  that.
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  Number 18, your imagination needs exercise too.
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  You won't expect the muscle to become stronger
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  without using it.
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  Your imagination is similar.
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  Give it challenges.
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  Ask it questions.
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  Let it picture alternatives.
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  Exercise it regularly.
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  I think if you do, you're going to
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  start to say, wait a minute.
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  This is making sense now.
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  This is starting to click.
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  That's what I hope all of you will
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  eventually do.
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  I know it's not an easy thing.
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  And I said to you that comfort is
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  not where success starts.
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  It starts where we're uncomfortable.
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  Number 19, use creativity outside your usual environment.
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  If you're technical, try something artistic.
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  If you're artistic, solve a technical problem.
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  Cook differently.
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  Rearrange a room.
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  Write something.
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  Build something.
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  Creativity becomes stronger when it crosses boundaries.
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  But a lot of people are afraid to
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  cross boundaries.
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  Oh, I'm not trained in that area.
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  I don't have expertise in that area.
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  That's just ourselves saying we're unsure.
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  But why not explore it?
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  Why not see what we can do, what
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  we can make, what we can learn?
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  What we can derive?
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  I think everybody feels that we have to
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  add 1 plus 1 and get 2.
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  Or subtract 2 minus 2 and get 0.
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  There's more to life than just math.
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  Math is a big part of life.
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  But we can be creative in a lot
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  of different ways.
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  How do the pieces go together?
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  Using our left brain versus our right brain.
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  One side of the brain says, I'll give
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  an example.
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  We have a problem.
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  So let's explore this.
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  So difference between left brain thinking and right
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  brain thinking.
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  Let's see if I can show you.
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  So you're cold in your home.
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  So you decide you're going to buy a
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  thermostat so you're not cold anymore.
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  So the brain is divided in two halves,
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  right and the left.
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  And so the two sides look very much
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  alike.
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  But there's a difference in how they process
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  information.
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  So the left brain is more logical, sequential,
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  linear thinking, mathematics, facts, thinking in words.
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  So the right side is more imagination.
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  The left side would be like, OK, I'm
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  going to go and buy one of these
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  smart thermostats.
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  OK, the right brain says you're imaginative.
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  You're holistic.
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  You're intuitive.
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  You have arts, rhythm, nonverbal, feelings, visualization.
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  By the way, the left brain maps to
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  the right side of the body and the
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  right brain maps to the left side of
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  the body.
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  So with that understanding, a left brain person
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  to solve the same problem would say, oh,
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  there's a plug near the thermostat.
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  I'm going to go ahead and put a
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  thermostat.
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  I'm going to put a nightlight in there.
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  And the light from the bulb giving off
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  a little bit will cause the thermostat to
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  shut off when it gets too hot.
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  And then when it comes out, it'll come
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  back on again.
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  So that can work if you're doing something
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  like a day night.
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  That would be a perfect example for that.
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  Number 20, change how you approach familiar problems.
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  Familiar problems often trigger familiar responses.
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  Interrupt that pattern.
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  Ask what you'd do if your normal solution
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  were unavailable.
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  Constraints can force your brain to discover another
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  route.
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  What happens when, gentlemen, you're away on a
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  trip and suddenly the internet goes down?
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  What do you do?
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  Do you panic?
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  How do you handle it?
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  Can you surf from your phone?
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  I mean, what options do you have?
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  I mean, that's really the question.
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  Do you go back to pen and pencil,
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  other kinds of communication, radios, ham radios, et
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  cetera?
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  Number 21, ask what could be done differently.
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  This one I think is the simplest creative
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  question available.
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  Don't assume different automatically means better, but give
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  yourself permission to investigate alternatives instead of automatically
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  repeating what you've always done.
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  Number 22, combine ideas that normally don't belong
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  together.
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  Innovation often comes from combinations.
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  Take something from one industry, a hobby, experience,
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  or a field, and ask whether it could
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  solve a problem somewhere completely different.
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  They do this in the pharmaceutical world all
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  the time.
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  A drug gets black labeled and suddenly they
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  find another application for that same drug.
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  That happened with Krazy Glue.
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  It failed for one premise and then they
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  discovered, oh, and then I think the patent
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  got lost and now Gorilla Glue took over.
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  A lot of products in life happen by
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  failures and then they were reclassified.
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  Number 23, creativity doesn't require expensive tools.
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  Don't confuse creativity with equipment, a notebook, index
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  card, whiteboard, cardboard box, conversation, or your own
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  imagination.
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  Maybe enough to begin and start before you
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  have everything.
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  So a lot of people think, well, you
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  know, I don't have anything so I can't
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  start.
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  You could still start with what you have
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  and you might have enough just to build
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  and get things going, right?
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  I think that's the point that we miss
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  is that our creativity needs to be explored.
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  It wants to be invited to do things,
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  but if we constantly push it down, it
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  never gets the chance to show.
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  Number 24, start with what's already around you,
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  right?
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  Look at the resources you already have.
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  What can you reuse, rearrange, combine, or approach
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  differently?
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  Limitations can sometimes produce ideas.
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  Abundance never would, okay?
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  So when we don't have something and we're
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  trying to conceptualize it, the limitation might get
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  us to think in a way to find
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  more resources, okay?
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  I think those are important things.
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  Number 25, write ideas down before they disappear.
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  Ideas can feel unforgettable when they arrive and
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  disappear 10 minutes or a minute later, like
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  when you're sleeping, have a book by your
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  bed.
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  Capture them.
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  Don't trust yourself to remember everything.
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  Give your ideas somewhere else safe to go
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  and wait for you.
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  These are important things.
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  Number 26, your first thought doesn't have to
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  be your best thought.
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  Don't put enormous pressure on ideas, right?
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  That's number one.
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  The first idea may simply open the door
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  for number two, 10, 20, or 100.
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  Keep generating before deciding you've reached the answer,
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  right?
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  We know that the light bulb, right?
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  Thomas Alva Edison found 999 ways that it
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  would not work.
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  Number 27, generate possibilities before choosing one.
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  When you immediately choose the first acceptable solution,
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  you may never discover a stronger one.
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  Generate several possibilities first.
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  Selection works better when you actually have something
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  to select from.
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  Number 28, creativity becomes stronger through its usage.
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  Creativity isn't something you save for a special
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  occasion.
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  Use it.
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  The more frequently you use questions, experiment, notice
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  patterns, and develop ideas, the more natural the
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  process actually becomes.
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  Number 29, the more you create, the more
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  naturally ideas come.
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  So nature helps us create a lot easier,
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  right?
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  Creating produces momentum.
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  One idea connects with another.
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  One experiment raises another question.
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  One project teaches you something that becomes useful
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  somewhere else.
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  Creativity can create more creativity, right?
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  It attracts.
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  Creativity attracts creativity.
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  Number 30, you're more creative than you think.
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  So why don't you start using it?
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  That's what I want you to remember today.
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  You may need to become creative in a
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  different way.
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  You may need to recognize the creativity you're
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  already using and exercising more of it.
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  You might say, John, I don't need to
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  become creative.
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  Okay, maybe you don't have to do it
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  formally.
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  Just play with it.
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  Maybe somewhere along the way you decided creativity
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  wasn't for you.
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  Maybe someone else seemed more artistic, imaginative, or
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  innovative and assured you that they possessed something
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  you didn't and never will.
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  Creativity is not just painting.
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  It's the idea or accumulation of ideas to
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  come up with a new concept.
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  But creativity isn't a private club, guys.
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  Anyone can join.
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  Every time you've improved when a plan failed,
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  solve the problem with limited resources connected to
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  ideas, notice something others missed, or asked whether
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  there might be another way you already demonstrated
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  you possess creativity.
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  Yeah, so you actually are creative.
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  The question is whether you're exercising it intentionally.
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  So today, tomorrow, the rest of the week,
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  next week, notice, ask questions, write down an
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  idea, try something differently.
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  Experiment without demanding that the experiment becomes brilliant.
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  Give yourself permission to create something that isn't
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  perfect.
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  Profitable, publishable, or even particularly useful.
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  Because we're going to spend this week exploring
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  creativity from several different directions and angles.
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  And we're starting with the most important thing,
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  the foundation.
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  You are not disqualified from being creative because
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  you haven't been using your creativity lately.
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  Sorry, that's not an excuse.
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  You may simply be out of practice.
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  And practice, ladies and gentlemen, can change.
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  Creativity gets stronger when you use it.
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  Curiosity becomes stronger when you follow it.
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  Imagination becomes stronger when you exercise it.
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  Let me say that again.
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  So CBS, curiosity becomes stronger when you follow
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  it.
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  IBS, imagination becomes stronger when you exercise it.
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  So don't wait for somebody to call you
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  creative.
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  Start creating right now, this moment.
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  Maybe it's writing a poem.
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  Maybe it's drawing something.
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  Maybe it's an idea for an invention.
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  Maybe you're someone, you saw something not working,
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  like, I have an idea.
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  You may not have the whole idea, but
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  maybe you know there's something that you could
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  do to make it better.
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  So ladies and gentlemen, you know what I
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  invite you to do?
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  I invite you to explore your creativity, your
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  left brain, your logical brain, and your right
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  brain, which is more of your artistic and
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  creative side.
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  I invite you to start creating right now,
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  right this very moment.
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  It might feel uncomfortable, but you know what?
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  After time, it's going to become easier for
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  you, okay?
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  I know it's going to sound lonely because
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  you don't have anyone else to create with,
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  but creativity starts with self.
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  And then it can transition into creativity with
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  teams.
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  But you've got to have enough belief in
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  yourself that you are creative, right?
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  Logos come from creativity.
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  Video production comes from creativity.
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  Even a chair I'm sitting on comes from
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  creativity.
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  The laptop, the microphone, the lights, my home,
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  everything, the keyboard, everything comes from creativity.
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  It all comes from a thought, a thought
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  that somebody once had.
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  Maybe they wrote it on a napkin.
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  Even the concept of RO water.
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  We started with water two times.
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  Now we're at seven times filtering.
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  That's creativity, guys.
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  Just because a process is working now doesn't
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  mean that process can't be better with some
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  creativity.
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  The point is you might say, well, I
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  don't know enough.
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  You don't need to.
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  I've said this many times before.
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  You do not have to be great to
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  start, okay?
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  But you have to start to become great.
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  You don't have to have all the ideas
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  to start, but you have to start to
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  start getting all the ideas.
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  Does that make sense?
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  A great chef doesn't need to be great
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  to start cooking.
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  But he needs to start cooking so he
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  can be a great chef.
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  And you can go through this in any
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  area of your life, any kind of discipline,
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  any skill.
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  Maybe it's relationships.
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  You don't have to be great at relationships
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  to start, but you have to start so
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  you can become good at relationships.
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  The idea of creativity, some of the people
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  will say, oh, John, you know what?
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  I don't want to deal with that.
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  I'll pay someone.
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  And I get that, right?
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  I get that.
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  But I'm just saying, allow your creativity to
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  flow out of your body.
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  Because there's so much your mind and body
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  can do if you allow it to.
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  That's the question.
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  If you allow it to.
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  Maybe you're scared.
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  Maybe it's going to feel uncomfortable.
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  Yes, it will.
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  Get over it.
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  Maybe you feel you're going to fail first.
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  Maybe you will.
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  Get over it.
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  Maybe you've done weightlifting before.
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  And you couldn't lift in the beginning.
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  But after you started lifting, it got better.
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  And you could lift more, right?
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  Maybe in the beginning, you couldn't even in
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  golf, right?
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  Maybe, I know when I started golf many,
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  many years ago, when I was in high
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  school, I couldn't swing a great club.
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  I practiced, had a good instructor.
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  And now I can.
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  So I invite you now to start creating.
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  In whatever capacity that is in your life.
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  Don't put restrictions on what it should or
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  shouldn't be.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, it has been such a
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  privilege and honor to be with you guys
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  today.
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  And I am John C.
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  Morley, serial entrepreneur and so much more.
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  And this has been another powerful, amazing episode
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  of, yes, The Inspirations For Your Life Show.
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  I thank you again for spending this precious
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  time with me.
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  I also invite you to do a few
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  other things.
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  To stay curious.
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  To keep experimenting in different areas of your
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  life.
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  And not putting restrictions on how something should
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  come to you.
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  And give yourself permission to discover just how
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  creative you actually are.
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  I think once you start to see some
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  results from that, and you give yourself a
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  little break, you're like, wow, I'm creative.
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  Yep, you're more creative than you think.
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  So start exercising it.
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  And I'll see you another show, everyone.
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  Check out believemeachieve.com.
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  Be well, everyone.