Accidental Creativity | Weekday Wisdom 🚀

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Calling all professional problem solvers!

Here's looking at you, thinkers, strategists, creatives and more.

We see the hard yards you put in. We see the sleepless nights while your mind keeps working.

We see the endless demand for more solutions and we are here to help.

One of our writers interviewed Todd Henry, the author of the Accidental Creative, AKA the arms dealer for the creative revolution, in a podcast all about helping you to be brilliant, prolific and healthy.

Find out how to be all three of those things at the same time right here.

Big love,

Chris & the 42courses team x

Course of the Week 🏆

Creative Thinking is the Swiss army knife in your mental toolkit.

In our Creative Thinking course, you will learn a whole range of techniques that will help you approach any situation in life, more ready to solve problems creatively.

You’ll understand how to deal with creative blocks, get in the right frame of mind to generate ideas, and ways to increase your powers of observation.

You’ll also discover why it is essential to get comfortable with failure, why constraints help not hinder the creative process and several killer techniques to aid your creative thinking.

And if you need more a little more nudging, here's what one of our learners said:

"Massively engaging course. Filled with thought-provoking material that really brought out a more creative side I hadn't been aware wasn't functioning as well as it could have been! Supplemented by poignant words from experts, How to be More Creative offers tons of ways to be what it says on the tin."
- Ursula B. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

ICYMI 👀

1. Why simple ideas work best ✨

There’s a saying in the Army that ‘complicated gets you killed’. Whilst this viewpoint is extreme in the context of coming up with ideas, the core message is the same: simple is better....

2. Why it’s good to be committed to your ideas rather than attached to them 🌳

"Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity." — Marina Abramovic

THE TUESDAY TAKEAWAY 💡

Do you sometimes find yourself working on multiple projects at once? Are you afraid of failure, and does this sometimes hold you back? Have you ever procrastinated? (If not, maybe you'll get to it later).

If you answered yes to any of these questions then we hate to break it to you, but might be a creative person.

This Ted Talk from Adam Grant sheds light on some surprising habits of creative people and how these traits can actually be a good thing.

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Bonus joke: Why did the pony ask for a glass of water?
Because it was a little horse 😂