“Tiago Forte, Founder of Forte Labs and author of “Building A Second Brain,” discusses how to do creative work in a world of information overload.
Short, yet powerful video on the importance of digital note-taking to track what surprises you.
Big Idea:
Building a second brain is critical for creators to track their ideas.
10 Brutally Honest Answers To Questions You May Have As A Creative Entrepreneur
The truth about what it takes to grow an audience and business as a creative entrepreneur.
Here is one of my favorites:
“Why do other people’s tweets do so much better than mine?
There are 3 possibilities:
► Your tweets suck. (Probably not.)
► They’re using engagement groups, ads, or some other thing to boost their tweets. (Maybe?)
► What they’ve done off Twitter got them more followers than what they do on Twitter. (Probably.)”
Prompts from the new book Creative Doing
“Great ideas aren’t found, they’re made, through consistent creative practice. Creative thinking comes from creative doing. And that’s exactly what the following prompts, and this book, are for.”
A Blueprint for Becoming a Creative Entrepreneur
Tom Critchlow offers a path to becoming a successful creative entrepreneur, along with the pitfalls to avoid at each step of the process.
The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson’s Get Back
Here is an interesting take on the popular Beatles documentary Get Back.
“Watching extraordinary people do ordinary things is also just oddly gripping. I loved witnessing the workaday mundanity of The Beatles’ creative life. Turning up for work – for the most part – every day, at an agreed time: Morning Paul. Morning George. Taking an hour for lunch, popping out for meetings. Sticking up your kid’s drawing by your workstation. Confessing to hangovers. Discussing TV from the night before. Fart jokes. Happy hour at the end of an afternoon. Coats on: Bye then. See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow.”
Julius Caesar Vs Salt Bae’s Disruptive Strategies
“Disruptors and creative geniuses are idealists. They want to change the world, disrupt their industries, and have an impact.
The trouble is most people don’t have the courage to be different. And that’s fine.
But if you truly want to make a difference you’re not going to do it in your comfort zone.
As a disrupter, you will fail. Many times. But you keep iterating until you get it right. And you will get it right. Eventually.
Whereas if you conform to mediocrity because you are too scared to fail, then you will have failed before you even tried. Others may not know this…but, deep down, you will know.”
