We love to see what
creative people do with creative tools.
It's called 18 Things Highly
Creative People Do Differently, and it really resonated with me.
She effectively developed active and passive income streams that have enabled her to pursue game development without a full - time or part - time job and has made it a mission of Sonic Toad Consulting to help other indie developers and
creative people do the same.
That's
all creative people do.
That's what smart
creative people do, and they often find real success in this approach.
Creative people do go to work in startup companies more often, but not because they are creative.
Being removed from my comfort zone to film in LA exposed me to a lot of
creative people doing unique things in the food space.
What creative person doesn't question whether he or she has anything left to say?
It is inspiring to see all
these creative people doing beautiful stuff with old furniture... but I just can't get into it no matter how much I want to.
Not exact matches
The discovery of the network leads to some intriguing theories about why
people often fail to come up with
creative solutions when they're focusing on a problem but succeed later, when they're
doing other things, like taking a shower or watching a movie.
«You get enough quirky,
creative people up here
doing their own thing, and it's inspiring,» says Elisabeth Robert, CEO of Burlington - based Vermont Teddy Bear.
«I have watched so many talented,
creative, and inventive
people rage against their work, or even worse, stop
doing their work because of the frustration that they encountered along the path of whatever it was they were trying to create.
Smart
people can
do really
creative things with the right technology.»
«The best thing you can
do to be more
creative... is to talk to
people who disagree with you.»
A 2011 study found morning
people should
do their critical thinking in the morning and
creative work later, and night owls should
do the opposite.
Dennis Cowhey, author of the book What
Does It Mean — The Personal Stories Behind Vanity License Plates, says business
people have used all sorts of
creative combinations of numerals and letters to let the world know what they
do.
Perhaps companies should
do just the opposite — intentionally apply limits to leverage the
creative potential of their
people.
Instead, he advises that entrepreneurs determine what their message is — if you need market research to figure this out «you should be
doing something else» — and then find a trusted
creative person or small team to communicate it to consumers.
That means a cookie baking mania or mountain biking obsession isn't just a great way to get in the flow, reduce stress, recharge your
creative batteries, and
do better at work, it also will fundamentally make you a better, tougher
person.
You don't have to have a
creative - based business in order to appreciate the fact that Catmull just knows how to work better with
people, and how to make those
people thrive.
Once you get
people to your website, it's not always clear what you want them to
do,» says Nicholas Chilenko, principal of web design firm Nicholas
Creative.
Why
do people give up on
creative projects?
I'm the type of
person that seeks
creative ways to
do new things.
«When you travel alone, you force yourself into a survival mode where you have to
do things and you have to meet
people and you have to push yourself to figure out what's going on unless you want to be in your room all day,» he says «It's the most exhilarating, inspiring,
creative thing that there is.»
While the «data scientist» title is somewhat all - encompassing now, Gnau expects that it will that three specialty fields will emerge soon: technologists, who write the algorithms and code to transverse the large amounts of data; statisticians and quantification experts; and artist - explorers,
creative people who can navigate content and find something others don't see.
There's no incentive for
creative people to
do their best work, to give their all.
When you ask
creative people how they
did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really
do it, they just saw something.
Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the
Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented
people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of
doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»
If the
person doesn't truly get your brand, no matter how
creative they are, they won't pick up on the subtleties that truly capture what you want to express.
«There are
people who can't
do anything else, whose savings haven't been such that they can wait,» said certified financial planner David Mendels, director of planning at
Creative Financial Concepts.
For entrepreneurs writing business blogs or articles, he says, «What's important is that you pick an aspect that you know
people are going to be enticed to read, and you
do the research necessary and put your own
creative spin on it.»
Sometimes when a partnership is more financial, like with the pension - fund operated owners... sometimes there are
people who don't quite get what you want to
do or the
creative choices you want to make.
I need my brain to
do creative problem solving and not worry about offending this
person or disappointing that organization.
Referring to research
done before me, and my own two - year interview - based first - hand study, I found that
people are, in fact, more
creative in startup companies.
From a
people management perspective, we love exploring
creative, inspiring and useful ways to help all of our stakeholders, and it's critical to always
do so with integrity.
Most
people think they don't have time to be
creative.
What other ingredients
do you think
people are missing to be their most
creative?
I didn't want to believe that mature companies attract less
creative people, or that
creative people were less drawn to work in large companies.
Don't rely on a few really
creative people and ignore the processes and pathways that must exist in order to convert ideas into products.
FRIENDS is a Brooklyn - based coworking community and the work home to 35
creatives — designers, filmmakers, writers, illustrators, developers, photographers, and
people doing generally awesome (
creative) work.
What
do you think of this strategy as a way to get money back into the hands of really
creative people who have small financial needs than the big banks want to fund?
[42:14] Tony explains the questions to ask an advisor, to ensure they're truly on your side [42:28] 60 % of
people surveyed today say they believe their financial advisor is putting the company interests above their own — it's actually worse than they believe [42:45] Why Tony has chosen to support Peter and his firm,
Creative Planning [43:33] How you can get a second opinion from Peter's firm,
Creative Planning, through their website (www.GetASecondOpinion.com)-- it doesn't matter how much or little you have, they'll give you feedback [44:00] Tony's biggest challenge when writing his first book, and how it brought him to Peter Mallouk [44:30] Peter explains the process
Creative Planning went through to open their services to
people at the $ 100,000 level, and how offering this extensive range of services to
people at this level is unprecedented
The director and the other
creative leaders of a production
do not come up with all the ideas on their own; rather, every single member of the 200 - to 250 -
person production group makes suggestions.
One thing many
people don't know about BitTorrent is we have an incredible
creative team.
It doesn't matter if the CEO has the most
creative, innovative business plan of the century — if he doesn't also have
people working alongside him who are dedicated, determined and hardworking, then his dream can't become a reality.
«Brooklyn's become the place where you go capture the
creative people who can
do that.»
Maybe we'll give out prizes or something if a lot of
people do it and we see something
creative and fun.
Job growth has been concentrated in positions that tend to fall into two categories: manual work that must be
done in
person, like styling hair or serving food, which usually pays relatively little; and more
creative, design - oriented work like engineering or surgery, which often pays quite well.
We don't always have the money to reward our top team members, so I think someone who can think of fun and
creative ways to engage their
people will go a long way.
How
do we honor the
creative arts and the ways they bring
people together?