Episode 119 - Christiane Michaelis [Creativity Team Building]

Christiane Michaelis talks about never being too old to be creative, Harry Potter and how to grow your creativity muscle.

Show Notes:

3:40 - Two things Christiane misses the most about Germany.

5:52 - The transition from tenure track teaching to her creativity business.

8:13 - Where the name "Dirty Easel" comes from.

10:53 - "50% of the people in the world feel they are not creative..."

12:46 - Growing your "creativity muscle" ...

21:09 - A classic scene from Harry Potter.

26:41 - "Opening a business is like opening a big bag of failures ... "

33:04 - "Easy for me to jump and take a leap when my mind is made up ... "

39:14 - People who say they are too old to learn new skills.

44:15 - "We need to be able to drop everything and follow the call of the moment ..."

Book Recommendations:

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells

Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace