Episode 17: Brian Janosch - Redefining creativity in all spaces

Show Notes: Cultivate Wit (03:00) New Glarus Spotted Cow Beer (03:40) Lambeau Field - Green Bay, Wisconsin (04:00) Pausing in your activities to recognize what it is you are actually drawing joy from (07:20) Surprising ways to learn about entrepreneurship (11:00) Common experience and connection (20:30) The Onion (21:00) Creative process at The Onion (25:30) TED Talk: What I learned from writing jokes for The Onion (27:40) Creative collaboration (29:30) Two tracks of the ’notion’ of creativity: within your own head and within a collective group (29:50) Detachment as a key component of creativity (32:30) Daniel Kahneman and cognitive biases (33:00) Ideas are not precious (36:30) Dealing with rejection (36:50) TV show with Baratunde Thurston called Funded (37:30) Take the risk to do your best work - like Stephen Pressfield’s The War of Art (40:30) IDEO (42:50) Ideas in service of cultural growth and people (44:30) Time at Google working on the AI personal assistant (45:10) The whole world is designed (47:40) We are shaping our ideas of the world through every interaction (48:00) Note-taking (50:00) Field Notes notebooksI’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now The magic of the blank page Lightning round (01:01:00): Book: George Saunders The Tenth of DecemberFind Brian online WebsiteTwitter: @BJanosch Instagram'Five-Cut Fridays’ series  Brian’s list