The Accidental Creative
Structure your study plan in quarterly increments.
Todd Henry • The Accidental Creative
What are you curious about right now? Your study plan is not just a method for getting more done at work; it’s also a method for growing yourself intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. Take
Todd Henry • The Accidental Creative
Choice means that by saying yes to a set of practices, you are inherently saying no to a lot of other things. You can do almost anything you want, but not everything you want.
Todd Henry • The Accidental Creative
Activities that increase your personal capacity to generate ideas, such as study, purposeful ideation, or intelligence gathering. These are typically the first activities to go during a busy season, but you must ensure that they find a place in your game plan. If you neglect them for too long, you will find your effectiveness decreasing across the
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Reading, sketching, uniting, podcasts, interesting talks, etc.in otter words following my curiosity
The organization is primarily concerned with the finished product, but 99 percent of what we do as creatives is process.
Todd Henry • The Accidental Creative
The third, and most desirable, mode is the Developer. Developers have a strong sense of the overall objective and have a sense of purpose and priorities in navigating there, but instead of just plowing through the work with their noses down, they purposefully approach each task or element of a project as an opportunity to develop new connections or
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Every organization begins as an advance force and ends up as an occupying force.
Todd Henry • The Accidental Creative
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” —Charles Mingus
Todd Henry • The Accidental Creative
David Allen teaches a principle in his book Getting Things Done called the “Someday/Maybe” list that is an effective repository for projects that you want to begin at some point but not now. Keeping a list of “someday I will . . .” kinds of projects allows you to put things off without feeling like you are abandoning them forever.
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Assuming that we decide to move forward with our idea, there will next be a period of gestation in which the idea takes form. This is the real work of creating. We gradually develop the idea, building on the initial inspiration, refining it through multiple iterations.