Bengals, Brilliance & Todd Henry
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This episode of ProductiVardy features an interview with Todd Henry, the driving force behind Accidental Creative and author of the book The Accidental Creative: How to Become Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice.
What happened then
- There were some audio problems on my end, microphone issues to be specific. Apologies all around, but it’ll be fixed for next episode.
- Todd and I touch on our love-hate relationship with the Cincinnati Bengals, both at the onset and tail-end of the interview.
- Todd talks about some of the challenges that get in the way of our creativity — and the ability for us to reach our full potential of what we can do in terms of creativity.
- Is “shipping” all that it’s cracked up to be? Todd talks about the problems with just shipping things.
- Todd steps out of his scope a bit to talk about a possible shift in our society being driven by what we love to do that being driven by the dollar.
- Todd talks about one of the biggest things creatives struggle with.
- What does FRESH mean? Todd tells us.
- Todd talks about paper and his digital tools, including how he uses Evernote, Scrivener, PlainText, DEVONthink and OmniFocus. (There’s also a shoutout to Brett Kelly in there.)
- What gives Todd his edge? Who won the Carson Palmer trade? Do the Bengals make the playoffs? Todd reveals his thoughts on all. (He was partly wrong on one of them so far…)
What happens now
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This was a really good discussion. My top two take-aways:
""If you want to be brilliant at a moment's notice you have to start way upstream from the moment that you need a brilliant idea."
Yes indeed. Practice your idea generation skills, capture them for later review, and set aside time for just thinking every day. Todd mentioned getting caught sitting there "looking at a blank sheet of paper", there is nothing wrong with that!
The second thought that really struck me was "Define your work so that you are solving problems, not just doing projects". I love that. One thing that I stress with my coaching clients is that you need to do some editing, some of those things on your list just do not have to get done. By anybody.
Thanks for sharing another great show.
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