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...