DMTV Milkshake: Natalie Nixon on Staying Buoyant in Troubled Times
Author, educator and strategist Natalie Nixon offers tips on staying creative, on schedule + productive in any situation.
This week?s DMTV Milkshake guest is Natalie Nixon, author, creative strategist, president of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC and all-around seer.
Natalie Nixon?s The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation and Intuition at Work would be an inspirational read in pre-pandemic days ? read in the middle of the biggest paradigm shift in how and where we work (and think), it?s bracing, and necessary. In this week?s DMTV Milkshake, Nixon helps us lay a road map for the future of creative work. ?A guiding principle for me is the idea of buoyancy,? she says ?Back in March, when Covid-19 became a reality for us in the United States, I started signing off all of my emails with ?Stay buoyant, Natalie.? The reason why buoyancy is super-relevant right now is because buoyancy conjures up this ability to relinquish control. I?m a swimmer, and one of the first things you learn when you?re swimming in open water is if you start getting tired, to flip over on your back ? and when we flip over on our backs, our perspective shifts.?
Nixon also shares some practical advice on how to schedule our blurrier-than-ever days (?It?s important to know when to step away from the laptop?) and how design archives can inspire creativity: ?In my book, I actually talk about how there?s nothing new under the sun,? Nixon says. ?So when we revisit archives, it absolutely helps us t...
This week?s DMTV Milkshake guest is Natalie Nixon, author, creative strategist, president of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC and all-around seer.
Natalie Nixon?s The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation and Intuition at Work would be an inspirational read in pre-pandemic days ? read in the middle of the biggest paradigm shift in how and where we work (and think), it?s bracing, and necessary. In this week?s DMTV Milkshake, Nixon helps us lay a road map for the future of creative work. ?A guiding principle for me is the idea of buoyancy,? she says ?Back in March, when Covid-19 became a reality for us in the United States, I started signing off all of my emails with ?Stay buoyant, Natalie.? The reason why buoyancy is super-relevant right now is because buoyancy conjures up this ability to relinquish control. I?m a swimmer, and one of the first things you learn when you?re swimming in open water is if you start getting tired, to flip over on your back ? and when we flip over on our backs, our perspective shifts.?
Nixon also shares some practical advice on how to schedule our blurrier-than-ever days (?It?s important to know when to step away from the laptop?) and how design archives can inspire creativity: ?In my book, I actually talk about how there?s nothing new under the sun,? Nixon says. ?So when we revisit archives, it absolutely helps us t...
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