Concepts

Creativity  

• Our brain’s fear response is great for protecting us from tigers and being abandoned when we are too young to fend for ourselves - unfortunately it can prevents us from taking any perceived risk so it can stifle creative action.

• You can manage that fear response by giving it a name - Peter calls it MARV and imagines it as a bald cartoon

• Once you have MARV visualized, you can send him for a break; Peter’s book offers a range of easy-and-fun techniques.

Gratitude

• Gratitude in almost any form makes your brain more ready for creative action

• Many of Peters “MARV-management” techniques use different forms of expressing gratitude.

• Gratitude also unlocks the biggest value - on any journey to improve, you can feel it internally without needing a lot of accolades from others, so it’s a kind of doorway

• You can feel gratitude for what you are learning on the journey, not just the outer accomplishment; this reinforces doing more because it moves your motivation inward.

Vision

• Vision can be simple set of actions or a longer-term process.

• Working to a vision can lead you to different choices, different habits (see peters book for a useful list along with exercises)

• There are “filters” and “doorways” on your path to creativity and goal accomplishment that are important to know how to navigate.

Links to things mentioned

• Peter’s company Big Muse’s Web site

• Peter in the ResultMaps resource center

• Peter in Forbes

• Peter’s critically acclaimed book “Let Me Out” on Amazon

Articles by Peter

• Creativity: The Strategic Necessity You May Have Overlooked

• Change In Times Of Fear (How To Reclaim Your Creativity In The Storm Of Disruption)

• Hearing Like Prince: How A Rock Star Can Teach Leaders To Listen

• The Idea-Revealers: Where Business And Art Intersect

• How Purpose Drives Innovation: Finding Our Way to Things of Higher Value

• The Utility Of Urgency (Or How Tension Begets Creativity)

• An Unexpected Reason People Lack Creativity: And How To Overcome It

• Stop Searching For Contentment: The Value Of An Unsettled Mind

• How Willing Are You To Make An Investment In Creativity?

• Five Super-Strange Ideas That Will Definitely Make You More Creative

• Moving toward a qualitative life

Other Sessions

• Sean Sheppard, Co-founder of GrowthX and GrowthX Academy

• Will Bunker, Co-founder OneAndOnly (now Match.com), VChatter, President; GrowthX co-founder; investor in 160+ tech companies, 5 exits

• TK Kader, Founder and CEO of Unstoppable, ToutApp (A16z), SVP Strategy at Marketo, Adobe;

• Jason McCann, CEO of Vari

• Andy Petranek, Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist at Whole Life Challenge

• Arjun Dev Aurora, Founder and CEO Retargeter; Founder, Valence; Nike, Investment Committee

• Lori Williams-Peters, VP Business Excellence, InvisionApp Inc.