1 Intro & You don’t have to be a genius

Question 1

Content

Answer 1

• You don’t have to be a genius
• Think process not product
• Share something small everyday
• Open your cabinet of curiosities
• Tell good stories
• Teach what you know
• Don’t turn to human spam
• Learn to take a punch
• Sell out
• Stick around

Question 2

New way of operating?

Answer 2

Creativity is NOT a talent. It is a way of operating

Question 3

Are you an artist?

Answer 3

Need a new way to get your stuff out there

Question 4

Are you good?

Answer 4

Not enough, you need be great

Question 5

How to share?

Answer 5

Built sharing into their routine. Take advantage of the market.

Question 6

What is this book?

Answer 6

A guide for people who HATE the idea of self promotion

Question 7

Benefit of a blog?

Answer 7

Less need for a Resume!

Question 8

Benefit of your Hobby?

Answer 8

It can become an income

Question 9

Why share your interest?

Answer 9

You’ll find a group of people who are also interested

Question 10

Lone genius myth?

Answer 10

Random, ‘lightening bolt’, occurrence. NOT True

Question 11

Believe the myth?

Answer 11

Then creativity is an ANTI-social act

Question 12

Don’t believe the lone genius myth

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Because the truth is it’s a group of talented people sharing together, stealing ideas

Question 13

What is creativity?

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Always, in some sense, a collaboration

Question 14

Social media, blogs, twitter all are:

Answer 14

Basically, places for talent to grow

Question 15

People online are:

Answer 15

All on the same level

Question 16

Be an Amateur!

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It’s all the time we have left to be

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Amateurs can:

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Try anything. No reason and nothing left to lose. Free to make mistakes

Question 18

Creative acts:

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Even the stupidest act is creative

Question 19

Something vs Nothing

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Producing something, even small, is better than nothing

Question 20

Amateurs like to:

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Obsess over simple things that may be difficult to understand

Question 21

World changing so fast that:

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That we all only have the chance to be an amateur

Question 22

Amateurs work with:

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Anything! They try and try. Learn and learn

Question 23

Look for voids, why?

Answer 23

To find it and fill it with your voice

Question 24

Your voice:

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Shout it on the roof tops!

Question 25

When you lose your voice in one area:

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Find it again, in another way!

Question 26

When should you let your voice out?

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At break neck speed!

Question 27

Our voice is:

Answer 27

An opportunity! To share, to contribute, to grow

Question 28

In the face of death:

Answer 28

Everything falls away

Question 29

Do you have something to lose?

Answer 29

NOPE. You don’t, you’re already naked

Question 30

Waiting for it to happen?

Answer 30

NOPE. Make it happen!

Question 31

Near death?

Answer 31

Shakes you up, but it doesn’t last

Question 32

Thinking about death?

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Gives reason to keep living!