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“Sometimes we just need to put down our phones, close our eyes and take a few deep breaths. Ideas are often in flight patterns around our brains, just waiting for clearance to land.”
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“When deciding between giving a longer or shorter presentation, pick shorter. 'I wish you had talked longer' are six words you'll seldom hear from audiences.”
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“Decision makers aren't interested in our pain. They're interested in their pain. They accept or reject ideas based on whether or not they think we understand their painful problems and have the ability to solve them.”
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“If you're bored with something, act as if you're seeing it for the first time. Look at it with new eyes. Pretend you're seeing it as a film director, theme park designer or your Aunt Josie—anything that provides a change in perspective. To beat boredom, make the familiar unfamiliar.”
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“To connect with decision makers, we need to present ideas in their language, not ours. Know their business. Talk with them, not at them. Otherwise, they can't hear us when we speak.”
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“Bold ideas are often called nonsense until they make sense to the masses. That's why it's important to present ideas, even when we fear they might be called stupid or silly. What they laugh at today, may be what they laud tomorrow.”
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“The best idea tools are pen, paper and imagination.”
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“Nick Saban and his University of Alabama football teams have won five national championships. Attending an Alabama practice, I was intrigued by the repetitiveness of the team’s drills. “Everybody thinks you practice something until you get it right,” said Saban in a press conference. “You really practice until you can’t get it wrong. There’s a difference.” He pushes his players to practice until they won’t make errors in execution, even when facing a variety of teams and circumstances. This logic applies to prepping for presentations. Rather than just running through a presentation in your head, practice until you can’t get it wrong, even when facing changing conditions, tough questions and multiple objections. No presentation will ever be 100 percent perfect. But repetitive, deliberate practice will polish delivery and keep you from heading in wrong directions, regardless of circumstances.”
― Creative Zing!: Spark Your Creativity — and Powerfully Present Your Ideas!
― Creative Zing!: Spark Your Creativity — and Powerfully Present Your Ideas!
“Curiosity is straight fire for creativity.”
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“Creativity isn't for sissies. It takes guts to hold up ideas for people to criticize, reject or ignore. But the possible pain is worth the potential payoff.”
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“Creativity is a natural resource. It comes as standard equipment with being human. But our creativity becomes dull and nonresponsive without constant care and feeding.”
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“Little questions can sometimes solve big problems.”
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“In childhood when I would whine to my mother that I was bored, she would say, 'Wonderful! That means you get to invent something fun and interesting to do.' I find the same refrain applies in adulthood.”
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“When brainstorming encourage wild and crazy ideas. Nonsense often leads to ideas that make perfect sense.”
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“Questions loosen ligaments of cramped minds. Spirited inquiry releases us from trying to solve a problem with the same thinking that caused the problem.”
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“If we always look in the same old places for the same old things with the same old people, we'll always have the same old ideas. Rendezvous with the unfamiliar.”
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“With all there is to experience and create in this world, if I'm bored, then I'm a boring person.”
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“When presenting ideas, help decision makers get past their myopia. It's easy for clients to say no to an idea right in front of them. But if they can visualize your idea's future value, they'll have an easier time saying yes.”
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“If we know what we don't want to do, it's easier to focus on what we want to do. So before starting a new project, make a Don't Do list.”
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“What we call ourselves can sometimes be more negative than what we're called by others. Pay close attention to names you call yourself, the words that follow 'I am...' See if those words are fear-filled and destructive. If so, write them down, undertake any needed self-improvements and then cast aside those self-imposed negative names.”
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“I've never met a highly creative person who wasn't highly curious.”
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“Making a mistake isn't the problem. Doubling down to defend the mistake is the problem.”
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“Watch what you say to yourself and to others when brainstorming ideas. Wrong words at the wrong time bring ideas to a screeching halt.”
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“If you're bored, maybe you're a boring person. With all there is to see and do, there's no excuse for boredom. Get up. Get going. Start a project. Finish a project. Call a friend. Call an enemy. Write something down. Tear something up. Spin something around. Find something true.”
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“Associate with people who support and boost your creativity, not those who discourage fresh ideas and forward motion. Friends who aren't friends with our creativity probably aren't truly friends.”
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“Countless great ideas are at this moment gathering dust in files and boxes simply because their owners didn't stick with them.”
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“Ideas seldom sell themselves. In fact, the bolder the idea, the more it needs selling. Fresh ideas challenge people to let go of old ideas in order to embrace the new ideas. Selling helps that happen.”
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“Idea generation is about quantity, not quality. Multiplication, not subtraction. Editing comes later. The goal of brainstorming is to walk out with buckets of ideas, not one precious idea perched on a pillow.”
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“Information is good, but to spot ideas, you want insights. Lots of them. Because ideas aren't spotted in forms. They're spotted in sights -- those revelatory insights seized only when you roam new turfs, meet new people and have new experiences.”
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“Curiosity is straight fire for creativity. By exploring, you bring insights and inspiration to imagination.”
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