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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. Sponsored by

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What is happening inside our craniums, amongst the cortex, hemispheres, neuroglia, and brainwaves when we feel on fire with creativity and when we don't? To find out, let’s embark upon a fantastic journey to learn in which circumstances and states the brain is most creative. At the end, we'll better understand the brain on creativity and discover unconventional methods to leverage its power for increased ideation, inspiration, innovation, and flow. Beware: the science of the creative brain challenges the standard norms around concentration, focus, productivity, and may change how you work. Presented at SXSW Interactive, 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.

Sponsored by

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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.

DeniseJacobs.com

[email protected]

twitter.com/denisejacobs

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