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Scott Berkun — The Dance of the Possible: A bet...

Scott Berkun — The Dance of the Possible: A better way to understand how to work with ideas (Turing Fest 2018)

You work with ideas, big and small, all day long - isn’t it time you learn the deep patterns that explain your successes and failures? This short and fun presentation, will share timeless patterns and entertaining insights that can help you, and your team, be more creative and productive all at the same time. From finding creative confidence, to reusing brilliant ideas from the past, you’ll be entertained as you’re challenged to think differently about (creative) thinking.

Turing Fest

August 02, 2018
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  1. The Dance of the possible: the mostly honest, completely irreverent,

    guide to creativity Scott Berkun | scottberkun.com 
 August 2018 @ TuringFest
  2. !5 Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier 
 had to convince

    Stephen Sauvestre 
 to work on their design + +
  3. !6

  4. !7

  5. II’m @BERKUN
 
 
 
 HiYou can take photos as

    I go if you like or 
 get the slides you will see here: bit.ly/berkun-uxlx
  6. !14

  7. "We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects … protest with all our

    strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection … of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower“ 
 - Committee of 300, Le Temps, 1887
 "this truly tragic street lamp" (Bloy) "this belfry skeleton" (Verlaine) "this mast of iron gymnasium apparatus, incomplete, confused and deformed" (Coppée) !30
  8. !31

  9. “Most people would rather die than think, and many of

    them do!”
 
 - Bertrand Russell
  10. DOUBLE-TIME 1. Creativity is a kind of work 2. Escape

    false constraints 3. Journals and self-respect
  11. DOUBLE-TIME 1. Creativity is a kind of work 2. Escape

    false constraints 3. Journals and self-respect
  12. •Idea Killers: “We tried that before” •Fatal criticism of young

    ideas •Groupthink vs. 1-on-1 pitches FALSE CONSTRAINTS LEADERS CREATE
  13. 1. All ideas are made from other ideas 2. Great

    ideas look weird (at first) 3. We are naturally creative 4. Eliminate false constraints LESSON SUMMARY
  14. THANK YOU. These slides: bit.ly/berkun-uxlx Get the book: danceotp.com Scott

    Berkun | scottberkun.com 
 August 2018 @ TuringFest