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Ideas. I love ideas. It's the core of any creative endeavour.

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Music and links from this episode

1. All tracks from Captive Portal's new album, Having A VHS For A Leg
2. Choir Librarian by Captive Portal
3. When We Were Once by Captive Portal
4. Equestrian Encryption by Captive Portal

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1. INTRO
2. There’s one thing that is common across any type of creative activity
3. Whether you’re a designer, artist, singer, rapper, whatever
4. It’s all about ideas
5. Big ideas
6. Small ideas
7. Rubbish ideas
8. Good ideas
9. It’s all ideas
10. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
11. PLAY MID SONG
12. When people say that thing I hate hearing
13. “I’m not creative”
14. What they’re really saying
15. Is that they don’t think they can think of ideas
16. And even that’s not true either
17. They think that can’t come up with ideas
18. But that’s just a story that they tell themselves
19. Because over the years
20. People get creativity and idea-making hammered out of them
21. As they get older, they think they can’t think of ideas anymore
22. And actually, coming up with ideas isn’t actually that difficult
23. You’ve just got to be fearless
24. Actually, maybe fearless is a bit strong
25. We’re not talking about going to battle here
26. Or a duel to the death
27. But you do have to let go of your inhibitions a bit
28. And inhibitions, fear and doubts become more deep-rooted as we get older
29. The biggest inhibitor to coming up with an idea
30. Is the belief that an idea has to be good
31. But actually
32. The only way to get to the good ideas is to get past the bad ones first
33. Seasoned creative people are good at this
34. Because they come up with ideas all day long
35. They can actually run through a whole boat load of ideas in their head
36. And analyse them in an instant
37. Then pick out the good ones
38. That’s a skill that’s developed through years of training and practice
39. But when they first started
40. And when I first started
41. All my ideas were crap
42. And then when I came up with a good idea
43. It had either already been done
44. Or I didn’t have the skills to execute it
45. Coming up with the ideas is only one side of the coin
46. It’s an important side of the coin sure
47. But a good idea
48. The BEST idea in the world
49. Is nothing without execution
50. And good execution at that
51. I’ve seen many designers over the...