How we lost our creativity (and our ideas).

I'm not sure if you've had a chance to read my essay yet called "From Make-Believe to Must Achieve: How Adulting Killed Our Creativity (And Our Ideas)". It's truly a resounding wake-up call, making people everywhere question everything – and finally take action on executing the ideas that matter.

The essay explores how creativity becomes collateral damage entering adulthood - as the celebration of spontaneous creativity (what if?) is replaced by the demands of productivity and performance (what’s the ROI?) - and how we get it back.

This episode of The Visionist is an audio deep dive of the entire essay, brought to you by NotebookLM.

You can read and follow along with the text version of the essay at ​www.thecreativityessay.com​.

Your Idea Partner,
DeAnna McIntosh