your brain on creativity, sxsw 2013
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Your Brain on creativity
Denise R. Jacobs South by Southwest Interactive Austin, Texas 9 March 2013
Work Better. Skyrocket Creative Productivity.
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I am: @denisejacobs We’re at: #SXSW #SXSWi @sxsw And this is about #brainwork
question
No, not these
Or these
But This
Coveted, sought after
Like this?
Like this?
And/Or This?
“houston, we have a problem…”
Full of ideas
mechanism
Brain circuitry
External work environment
Management
Internal lands
Habits and thinking
Multitasking
ZeigarNik Effect
Communication Addiction
No focus
Fear
inner critic
Impostor syndrome
Comparisons
Perfectionism
Isolation
Manage our brains
Balance Your Brain
Left hemisphere
Right hemisphere
Work together
Know your Brainwaves
Calm down
Get Still
Move
HACK: Space out
Hack: Shower
Seek “Lo-fi” time
Exercise discipline
Say no to Distractions
Manage time
Pomodoro TEchnique
RescueTime.com
Airplane mode
Being prone
Transmute fear
Banish your inner critic
fear of failure
reframe failure
Ideas starting to flow
Brainstorming
DIWO
Collaborate
Improvise. Plus it.
Generate, Gather, and Curate Ideas
Analog Tools
Zootool.com Gimmebar.com Pinterest.com Imgspark.com Scrnshots.com Vi.sualize.us Emberapp.com
Evernote Diigo Delicious Flickr Trello
Digital Tools
Relaxed brainwaves
Balanced brain
Focus
Flow
Cavalier creativity
the power is in your hands
And Also in your heads
Calm neurological base
Calm neurological base
Skyrocket creative productivity
Your mission
Resources
delicious.com/denisejacobs/unfoldyourbrain
delicious.com/denisejacobs/creativityhabit
delicious.com/denisejacobs/brainoncreativity
(My) Articles for Further reading
netmagazine.com/features/ four-secrets-enhancing-creative-productivity
alistapart.com/articles/
reigniting-your-creative-spark/ alistapart.com/articles/
banishing-your-inner-critic/
My books
The CSS Detective Guide CSSDetectiveGuide.com
InterAct With Web Standards InterActWithWebStandards.com
Smashing Books #3 & #3 1/3 SmashingBook.com
My chapter: “Storytelling in Webdesign”
Americomorales.com
Thanks to Post-it Brand from 3m
Join us for the Create, Generate, Produce Meetup Tuesday, 12 March 2013 2:00pm Hampton Inn Downtown, room 1113
And to the audience!
I Speak, Write, And Evangelize Creativity.
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