Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 154
In this week’s show I repeat an offer I’ve made before: I would love to do a free creativity workshop for your non-profit—your community organization, your book club or church group. Contact me at carlnordgren14@gmail.com
The show was about my new book, ‘Common Ground for US’. The book has two goals:
To help you and me prepare for a future of unknowable unknowns.
And to provide political and community leaders with new language and fresh perspectives on policy making and governance, helping them help us in our preparation.
Let’s revisit my insistence that the future isn’t just unknown but is unknowable.
We’ve been buffeted for quite some time now with constant and unpredictable changes. They will continue and as one change crashes into another the volatile nature of the changes will grow.
There will be more fierce disruptions. When I started writing this book I used the COVID disruption as an example, and it certainly is possible the next disruption will also have a pandemic quality to it. But as the book was being edited, a Congressional Committee’s report on the impact of AI and robotics on our economy suggested another type of disruption: they predict that 90 million of the nation’s 160 million jobs could be lost in the next 10 years. All sorts of disruption emerges from anything like that.
And there will be unimaginable technology breakthroughs in green tech, renewable energy, transportation, carbon removal, health care, and each breakthrough will spawn waves of innovation and opportunity.
As it became clearer to me that I was focusing more on the future I networked with some professional futurists. Early on I heard a great quote from someone who had submitted a 10 year future plan for a client, one she uses to qualify all her client work.
“Our most likely scenario isn’t very likely.”
The book makes the case that given this is so, the most rational and the most optimistic preparation we can invest ourselves in is developing our creative and entrepreneurial qualities.
It’s rational that we’d prepare for the unknown by being more adaptive, imaginative, collaborative, resilient, and innovative.
And it’s optimistic because this plays to our strengths, this is who we are.
This episode shares some of the 15 creative behaviors that book emphasizes.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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