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Season 3 - Episode 247 - Creativity with instructions · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  All right, so let's talk about creativity again, because there
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  are some parts of this I don't want to leave out.
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  So if we're going to do it, we might as well go all the way in.
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  So the next part that I find always fascinating every time I
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  talk to people about creativity is how they'll say, and this
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  really comes up around work situations a lot where they'll
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  say, oh, they want us to have a creative response.
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  And I have a regular listener who's going to laugh when he
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  hears this because we've actually talked about this,
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  where they want them to be creative.
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  They want them to take on a project, and then they give them
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  impossible instructions. So it becomes like, hey, we want
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  to pick your brain and we want you to give us ideas, but we
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  want you to keep your framework around what we tell you.
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  And my friends, that's not creativity.
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  That's not creativity. Creativity is full flowing, free
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  flowing back and forth all over the place where you choose it to
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  be. It is not a a comeuppance of
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  like, oh, these are the rules around it.
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  They can give you a bunch of stuff and they can say, hey,
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  here's what we want you to know in the process.
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  And they can give you some parameters, but then they have
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  to let it flow. And so often for so many
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  companies, it is so hard for them to do that.
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  And it's such a critical leadership mistake because if
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  you pay attention to the fact that you just let everybody run
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  with it and see what happens, the statistics show that
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  amazingly, if you just let people go and be creative on
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  their own, they always come back with more powerful things.
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  Now, may you have to see through them.
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  Of course, you have to sift through it, see it.
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  It's like, OK, what do we have here?
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  Would there be tweaks? Yes.
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  But would you be getting really raw creativity?
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  Oh, yeah, you would. And it wouldn't be within the
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  boundaries that it is when like here are the instructions.
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  So if you are being feeling like you're stifled and you're put
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  into a situation where someone saying we want your creative
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  solutions and here are the instructions and then you feel
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  just blah, like this is heavy. This sucks.
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  I don't like this. Look at these things.
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  And I, I, the, the, my regular listener that I was talking
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  about actually sent me some stuff and I looked at it and I
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  was like, Oh my God, this is confusing to me.
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  How could any human even want to do this?
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  Because the instructions are so impossible that the creativity
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  goes right out the window because it's like, oh, this is
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  not a job for me. This is a job for logic.
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  This is a job for another emotion.
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  This is not my job. It's above my pay grade and it
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  takes off. And then there you are sitting
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  there wondering what the hell just happened.
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  Well, what happened happened was very reasonable because the
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  instructions don't come with that.
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  So point is, if you have those situations, you can say, OK,
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  what if I put that aside? What if I put the instructions
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  aside and I just look at what outcome I need, look at the
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  outcome, ask the questions, let your creativity completely flow
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  void of the instructions and see what shows up.
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  Then you can always go back and say, OK, now let me filter that
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  through their instructions. But sometimes when you reverse
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  engineer it, it's much easier for it to come out.
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  In fact, most times it's much easier and then you can see if
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  it fits. Now, truth be told, there are
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  many times that you cannot make it fit in the box they want.
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  However, good leadership will take it on and say, OK, let me
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  look at this. Let me really see if there's
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  something here that I can work with this person on and not make
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  you wrong for it. Good leadership is hard to find
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  my friends, but I'm just saying at least you know you're not off
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  target when you go at it that way and you try to reverse
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  engineer it. There are huge gifts in that.
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  So that being said, don't be afraid to try it.
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  Now. It does take overriding some of
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  the things that are already in your head that you quote UN
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  quote know because you've read the instructions and you've
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  gotten aggravated with them. You know what's there and you're
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  like, oh, damn, this is terrible.
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  I don't want to do this and you, so you've got to be out of that
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  emotion in order to do this. You've got to go in a different
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  path. You've got to approach it like,
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  OK, let me put all that aside. Let me get very clear.
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  I'm in my creative mode, you know, bring out the tools that
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  bring out creativity. You know, you've heard me say
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  this before. If you play with Play DoH, bring
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  out Play DoH. If you like crayons, color
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  first, if you do Legos, build Legos and then do this because
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  then you'll be in your organic creative mode and then you run
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  with it. But don't allow them to rob you
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  of that feeling because it is brilliant.
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  It it is pure bliss when you can do that and just take it from
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  that state of what would I do if I didn't have instructions?
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  OK my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.