Unleashing Your Best Work Each Day with Todd Henry

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

• Episode: Unleashing Your Best Work Each Day with Todd Henry
• Website: The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
• Feed URL: https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rss
• Duration: 00:53:24
• Published: 2013-09-30 10:00

Toddy Henry started his career in the music business, which eventually led to a role as a creative director and the start of a podcast called The Accidental Creative. He wanted to answer the question of how we can do sustainable creative work. He previously appeared as a guest in our episode, The Essential Elements to Creative Success with Todd Henry. Here are a few of the highlights from our chat:

• A Look at Staying Energized and Doing Great Work 
• The Common Threads Between People Who Are Prolific
• What We Can Learn from the Success of Musicians 
• Why the Creative Work You Do Is About the People You Serve
• The Reason That Cover Bands Don't Change the World
• Determining What Unique Value You Can Deliver
• Building Bridges for Your Audience with Your Art
• The Reality of What It Takes to Discover Your Gifts
• 7 Deadly Sins That Lead to Mediocrity 
• The Role of Fierce Curiosity in Your Growth
• Why You Must Build a Study Plan to Stimulate You
• How Our Comfort Zone Hurts Our Progress
• The Role That Ego Plays in Destroying Your Success
• The Myth of the Lone Innovator
• Why You Need a Framework for Creative Work
• Finding the Balance Between a Linear Process and Freedom
• Why You Have to Love Reading the Book That You Write
• Dying Empty of Regret and Not Going to Your Grave with Your Best
• Approaching Your Work as a Craftsman

 Tweetable Insights Include:

• Everything that seems fresh and new to you will eventually bore you (Click to Tweet)
• You discover what you're good at only through action (Click to Tweet)
• Creativity is a constant series of compromises (Click to Tweet)
• I know that everything I do isn't going to be Citizen Kane (Click to Tweet)

Todd Henry is founder Accidental Creative, an arms dealer for the creative revolution, a thought follower, an obsessive notebook purchaser, and author of The Accidental Creative & Die Empty. You can follow him on twitter @toddhenry.  If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here to post it to Twitter.