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Kafka once wrote, “Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.”
This six-week audio series on Efficient Creativity is the brainchild of Julianna Baggott – bestselling and critically acclaimed author of over twenty books, as well as professor and mother of four. Baggott has spent her life figuring out what Kafka has dubbed subtle manoeuvres in order to create a sustainable creative process.
In this series, she demystifies the creative process, drawing on famous artists, innovators, athletes, economists, and psychologists, looking at everything from sleep to shame, from food to fear. And she offers what she’s learned—and often obsessed over—to you. Her hope is that you can get to know your own creative processes, demystify it, and put it to work.
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EFFICIENT CREATIVITY: THE SIX-WEEK AUDIO SERIES
No. 1
WHEN THE IDEA APPEARS, AS IF BY MAGIC…
Baggott explains how she developed her creative process amid chaos in the hope that her creative life might survive. Forged under duress, her process made her more prolific than if she’d been living a quiet, distraction-free life of endless free hours.
She breaks down how it works and how you can develop it as a practice of your own.
Click here to get Chapter One –– Questions and Demands.
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No. 2
HOW TO COURT IDEAS AND HOLD ONTO THEM TIGHTLY…
Baggott looks at the ways in which we self-sabotage by throwing away our best ideas, and, more importantly, why we do it; how Shakespeare screwed everyone over but also set us free; how you can choose not to lean in or lean out, but enjoy the power of swaying; and how some people need quiet and solitude, but also can thrive with noise and distraction.
Click here to get Chapter Two –– Questions and Demands.
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No. 3
HOW TO INCUBATE THE IDEA…
Baggott discusses how to protect the idea while consciously creating an environment in which you’re more likely to hit a state of flow — that blissful and sometimes elusive state during which everything comes at you so fluidly that you’re not even fully aware of the passage of time or even really a sense of self.
Click here to get Chapter Three –– Questions and Demands.
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No. 4
WHAT HIGH PRODUCERS DO DIFFERENTLY OR THAT TIME I GOT WEIRD WITH DATA
Baggott talks about the phases your process might go through – both macro and micro. And how to deal with interfering issues like shame, fear, perfectionism, and worry. And yeah, she also confesses what I did at the height of her obsession with efficient creativity…and offers up what she learned.
Click here to get Chapter Four –– Questions and Demands.
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No. 5
HOW TO NOT QUIT: ON WRITER’S BLOCK, THE YIPS …WHEN THINGS GO WRONG.
This week’s session needs no introduction. There are times in every career, across disciplines, in which you hit a wall. This is where things get real — so real, in fact, that Baggott needed a Bonus Track…
No. 5: Bonus Track
HOW TO NOT QUIT: ON WRITER’S BLOCK, THE YIPS …WHEN THINGS GO horribly WRONG.
Click here to get Chapter Five –– Questions and Demands.
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No. 6
HOW TO BUILD THE SPACE AROUND YOU: PERSONS, PLACES & THINGS
Baggott examines the spaces that we build around ourselves – persons, places, and things. She talks about the importance of collaborators, coaches, partners — and even a good nemesis or two. She delves into physical space and the stuff around you. Baggott also offers her final thoughts on the conflicting demands placed on creatives and innovators in our culture and her hopes for you and your process as you put it to work.
Click here to get Chapter Six –– Questions and Demands.
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