Mapping the Creative Process
Lesson 4 from: Get Into Your Creative FlowSteven Kotler
Mapping the Creative Process
Lesson 4 from: Get Into Your Creative FlowSteven Kotler
Lessons
How To Watch
01:15 2Introduction to Workshop
06:12 3What is Creativity
04:58 4Mapping the Creative Process
02:57 5The Creative Personality
10:57 6Fulfill Your Creative Potential
03:09 7The Seven Creative Agreements
15:20 8Reframing
10:36The Bannister Effect
07:17 10Flow Overview
05:33 11The Science of Flow
13:31 12Your Brain on Flow
22:34 13Your Flow Profile
10:22 14Flow Triggers
08:41 15Tuning the Challenge Skill Balance
18:37 16Overview of the Flow Cycle
03:39 17The Struggle Phase
05:05 18Hacking the Grind
11:14 19Hacking the Mind
12:00 20Hacking the Most
07:38 21Sh*t to do When Sh*t Goes Wrong
10:13 22The Release Phase
03:00 23Release Triggers
17:49 24Build a Trigger List
12:38 25The MacGyver Method
08:12 26The Flow Phase
05:42 27The High Perch Experience
08:52 28Flow's Creative Trigger
07:59 29Minimal Feedback for Flow
03:54 30The Recovery Phase
10:27 31Post-Flow Visualization
04:08 32BONUS SEGMENT - The Passion Recipe
04:42Lesson Info
Mapping the Creative Process
We're gonna jump to our first map. So this is from a mechanistic point of view. How does it work? This is not mapped one to one on actual brain processes, but this is the creative flow. And what I mean by that is, creativity always starts with data acquisition. It is a recombinatory process. It is the brain blending stuff up. Information is coming into the brain, right. That data is being acquired. The next thing that is happening, is the salience network is kicking into gear and it's saying, okay out of all this information that's coming into your brain, this is stuff that's very important to pay attention to. Now as I said, creativity is always recombinatory, right. It's new information coming into the brain, finding links between that incoming information. Older ideas and using those connections to create something startlingly new. So the next thing that happens is pattern recognition. We use this term a lot today. Pattern recognition at a fundamental level is what every one of your...
neurons do at a very basic level. If you've read Ray Kurzweil's How to Create a Mind, he talks about that. At the very basic level, that is what our brain does. It looks to match patterns. And if you talk about, for example, vision. This happens at six stages in vision. So at the first level, when information comes in, you're pattern matching for very simple shapes, outlines and things like that. The next level up, layering colors. And by the time you get to levels four, five, and six, you're starting to add in meaning. You've seen the shape and your recognize this is a chair, oh it's a lounge chair, oh it's that lounge chair that grandma was sitting in two years ago when she passed away, that sort of thing. That's how it works, going up the chain. So we're matching more complex patterns at each step. Lateral thinking is also pattern recognition. Pattern recognition is the relationship between closely related ideas. Lateral thinking is far-flung ideas. Very disparate regions of the brain are talking to one another when we're doing lateral thinking. It's outside the box thinking, if that makes sense. Creativity is not just about coming up with those new ideas. Writing is not just about keeping a journal. You have to take those things and make them public. And you also have to hammer on them a lot, before you make them public. Perseverance is fundamental to creativity. We're gonna spend a lot of today talking about grit, and how to become grittier. Finally, risk-taking. You have to take your ideas public. So creatives need to practice taking risks. And we're gonna talk about this along the way. If you're not interested in risk, find something else to do for a living. You can't make it as a creative. It's just flat out, there's no way around it.
Ratings and Reviews
Jeremy Richardson
I've watched and participated in many webinars and online classes, and this was by far one of the best. The depth and breadth of information that Steven covers in this class is not only really important, but he structures it in a way that is engaging and most importantly: PRACTICAL. I'm coming out of this with a clear list of ways to improve my ability to get into Flow while accomplishing all of my creative endeavors. I highly recommend this to anyone who would like to do the same!
KimberlyAnnMurphy
This is amazing. Steven is hitting so many pain point for me about reframing my fear. He is also an amazing presenter. Thank you, Steven! I am excited, I am excited, I am excited!
Isaac Freed
Utterly mind blowing. Wow. A few hours listening to Steven Kotler felt more like a few days. He has done his research, and offers so much practical application advice that I will review this material several times. Well worth it, and highly recommended. Thank you, Creative Live!
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