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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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If You Feel Inclined to Tweet…

I am: @denisejacobs We’re at: #SXSW #SXSWi @sxsw And this is about #brainwork

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question

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No, not these

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Or these

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But This

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Coveted, sought after

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Like this?

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Like this?

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And/Or This?

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“houston, we have a problem…”

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Full of ideas

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mechanism

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Brain circuitry

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External work environment

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Management

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Internal lands

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Habits and thinking

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Multitasking

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ZeigarNik Effect

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Communication Addiction

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No focus

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Fear

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inner critic

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Impostor syndrome

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Comparisons

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Perfectionism

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Isolation

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Manage our brains

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Balance Your Brain

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Left hemisphere

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Right hemisphere

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Work together

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Know your Brainwaves

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Calm down

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Get Still

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Move

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HACK: Space out

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Hack: Shower

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Seek “Lo-fi” time

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Exercise discipline

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Say no to Distractions

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Manage time

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Pomodoro TEchnique

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RescueTime.com

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Airplane mode

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Being prone

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Transmute fear

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Banish your inner critic

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fear of failure

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reframe failure

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Ideas starting to flow

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Brainstorming

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DIWO

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Collaborate

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Improvise. Plus it.

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Generate, Gather, and Curate Ideas

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Analog Tools

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Zootool.com Gimmebar.com Pinterest.com Imgspark.com Scrnshots.com Vi.sualize.us Emberapp.com

Evernote Diigo Delicious Flickr Trello

Digital Tools

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Relaxed brainwaves

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Balanced brain

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Focus

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Flow

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Cavalier creativity

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the power is in your hands

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And Also in your heads

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Calm neurological base

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Calm neurological base

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Skyrocket creative productivity

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Your mission

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Resources

delicious.com/denisejacobs/unfoldyourbrain

delicious.com/denisejacobs/creativityhabit

delicious.com/denisejacobs/brainoncreativity

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(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/

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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”

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Americomorales.com

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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

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And to the audience!

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I Speak, Write, And Evangelize Creativity.

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[email protected]

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