Tom Krieglstein's keynote for the 2019 CIVSA conference in Birmingham, AL

1. How To
Trick Your Brain
Into Being More Creative
For Better Campus Tours

2. WOULD YOU RATHER?
have more money have more time
A B

3. life pause buttonlife rewind button
A B
WOULD YOU RATHER?

4. live twice as longwin the lottery
A B
WOULD YOU RATHER?

5. no one shows up to your
funeralwedding
A B
WOULD YOU RATHER?

6. A
go to a restaurant alonego to a movie alone
A B
WOULD YOU RATHER?

7. camp in naturesleep in luxury hotel
A B
WOULD YOU RATHER?

8. die after your spousedie before your spouse
A B
WOULD YOU RATHER?

9. be too coldbe too hot
A B
WOULD YOU RATHER?

10. fist bump
neighbor
high five
neighbor
A B
WOULD YOU RATHER?

13. DRAW
4
IMAGES

14. PICK
2
FAVORITES

15. WRITE YOUR STORY

16. SHARE WITH PARTNER

17. Pablo Picasso
“All children are artists.
The problem is
how to remain an artist
once (s)he grows up.”

18. Positive
Amplification
Process

19. PINK ELEPHANT

21. WHERE THE ENERGY FLOWS,
THE ATTENTION GOES.

22. Describe a
campus tour
that you led or
experienced that
went amazingly well?
What
made it
amazing?

23. SHARE WITH PARTNER

24. One Idea Per Post-It

25. Form Groups of 8ish
Each Person Shares Top 2 Ideas
Clump Ideas in Top 3 Groups

26. Form Groups of 8ish
Each Person Shares Top 2 Ideas
Clump Ideas in Top 3 Groups

27. Group Presentations

28. Define Action Steps
Celebration
Group Presentations

29. Tom@SwiftKickHQ.com
@TomKrieglstein

31. You Gotta
Work
It
TRICK #1

32. The Daily Storm
5 Ways To…
Exercise With A Lampshade

33. The Daily Storm
5 Ways To…
Exercise With A Lampshade
New names for Google

34. The Daily Storm
5 Ways To…
Exercise With A Lampshade
New names for Google
Titles of your own reality show

35. The Daily Storm
5 Ways To…
Exercise With A Lampshade
New names for Google
Titles of your own reality show
Ways to eat pizza w/o hands

36. Crush The Critic
TRICK #2

37. Daily Brainstorm
Word Association
One Word Story
Happy A-Z

38. TRICK #3
Expand
Then
Contrast

39. Creator
come up with a ton of ideas
explore imagine
go big
generate

40. Yes And…

41. The Alien
Went To
The
Beach…
Yes and…

42. Karen
Tilstra

43. Creator
come up with a ton of ideas
explore imagine
go big
generate
Critic
narrow down your list
reduce refine
clarify
decrease
select

44. Idea
Dating
TRICK #4

45. Jason Silva

46. 5 Ways to Exercise With A Lampshade

47. Idea 1 + Idea 1 = New Idea
5 Ways to Exercise With A Lampshade

48. Idea 2 + Idea 2 = New Idea
5 Ways to Exercise With A Lampshade

49. Steve Jobs
“Crea&vity is just
connec&ng things.”

50. Set It & Forget It
TRICK #5

51. “Those whose entered REM sleep did 40% beBer on the
test than nappers who didn’t get any REM sleep and
non-nappers.
REM sleep allowed the brain to work crea&vely on the
problems that had been posed before sleep.”

52. Forget ItSet It
Define Parameters Forget It
Research
Create An Ugly Duckling
Perfect It
Forget It
Forget It
DO IT

54. Tom@SwiftKickHQ.com
@TomKrieglstein

57. “You can be crea&ve in anything -
in math, science, engineering,
philosophy - as much as you can in
music or in pain&ng or in dance.”
Sir Ken Robinson

58. How To
Trick Your Brain
Into Being More Creative