1. Your Brain on creativity
Denise R. Jacobs
South by Southwest Interactive
Austin, Texas
9 March 2013
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3. question

4. No, not these

5. Or these

6. But This

7. Coveted, sought after

8. Like this?

9. Like this?

10. And/Or This?

11. “houston, we have a problem…”

12. Full of ideas

13. mechanism

14. Brain circuitry

15. External work environment

16. Management

17. Internal lands

18. Habits and thinking

19. Multitasking

20. ZeigarNik Effect

21. Communication Addiction

22. No focus

23. Fear

24. inner critic

25. Impostor syndrome

26. Comparisons

27. Perfectionism

28. Isolation

29. Manage our brains

30. Balance Your Brain

31. Left hemisphere

32. Right hemisphere

33. Work together

34. Know your Brainwaves

35. Calm down

36. Get Still

37. Move

38. HACK: Space out

39. Hack: Shower

40. Seek “Lo-fi” time

41. Exercise discipline

42. Say no to Distractions

43. Manage time

44. Pomodoro TEchnique

45. RescueTime.com

46. Airplane mode

47. Being prone

48. Transmute fear

49. Banish your inner critic

50. fear of failure

51. reframe failure

52. Ideas starting to flow

53. Brainstorming

54. DIWO

55. Collaborate

56. Improvise. Plus it.

57. Generate, Gather, and Curate Ideas

58. Analog Tools

59. Zootool.com
Gimmebar.com
Pinterest.com
Imgspark.com
Scrnshots.com
Vi.sualize.us
Emberapp.com
Evernote
Diigo
Delicious
Flickr
Trello
Digital Tools

60. Relaxed brainwaves

61. Balanced brain

62. Focus

63. Flow

64. Cavalier creativity

65. the power is in your hands

66. And Also in your heads

67. Calm neurological base

68. Calm neurological base

69. Skyrocket creative productivity

70. Your mission

71. Resources
delicious.com/denisejacobs/
unfoldyourbrain
delicious.com/denisejacobs/
creativityhabit
delicious.com/denisejacobs/
brainoncreativity

72. (My) Articles for Further reading
netmagazine.com/features/
four-secrets-enhancing-creative-
productivity
alistapart.com/articles/
reigniting-your-creative-spark/
alistapart.com/articles/
banishing-your-inner-critic/

73. My books
The CSS Detective
Guide
CSSDetectiveGuide.com
InterAct With
Web Standards
InterActWithWebStandards.com
Smashing Books #3 &
#3 1/3
SmashingBook.com
My chapter:
“Storytelling in
Webdesign”

74. Americomorales.com

75. Thanks to Post-it Brand from 3m
Join us for the Create, Generate, Produce Meetup
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
2:00pm
Hampton Inn Downtown, room 1113

76. And to the audience!

77. I Speak, Write, And Evangelize Creativity.
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