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Group Leader Comment by David Weiss yesterday

How can you change the story?

https://amokarts.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/change-the-story/

Group Leader Comment by David Weiss on Tuesday

Who Is On Your Creative Team?

Okay I will give a caveat here. Some realms of creativity are best done alone. Painting a painting, writing a book, these are things often done alone. For the most part however creativity requires a team (even the things above, but I'll get to that). One of my favorite types of TV is reality TV. No not the Kardashian's, or the "Real" Housewives, or Toddlers in Tiaras, those things will rot your brain and tend to generate (and encourage) terrible people. No the reality shows I like are the competition shows and especially the creative competitions. If there are people creating things and getting voted off, I want to see it. I love to see people create cool stuff under pressure. Of course there is one aspect that is always frustrating for the contestants and even me as a viewer and that is the team competitions. Everyone hates the team competitions. Everyone is wrong.

You see every creative effort, sooner or later requires a team and so every creative needs to learn how to lead a team and how to play well with others. When you join a team, you win some things and you lose some things. What you lose is creative control. All of the sudden your vision has to flex to the gifts, talents and contributions of the team. While one person should surely lead the project, it is almost always a mistake to ignore what the others bring to the table.

What do you gain? What everyone else brings to the table. How many times have you been working on a solo creative project and hit a wall? You get to the point in the project where you are leaving your strengths and heading into your weaknesses and you realize, one of two things. You're either completely stuck and can't move forward—stay here and the project dies—or you get begin to realize you're spending most of the time working in your weaknesses. To get the project all the way home almost always requires more than you. Smart creatives know their weakness and surround themselves with people who are strong where they are weak.

Earlier I mentioned the artist and the writer who work alone and that's great, but what to do when the creating is done. The artist needs someone to sell her work. They need someone to contact the galleries, get the commissions, perhaps frame the work, etc. Now she may be able to do all those things themselves but all the time she spends on those other activities is time she's not spending doing what they do best. She needs a team. The writer may write his own book, solo, but to go to print without a fresh set of eyes reading and editing it is a huge mistake. Trust me I know. This is not to mention the work of publishing, distributing. A creative is never stronger than his or her team. Your team can do the things you can't do, They an help you over the roadblocks and hurdles. They can provide fresh ideas. They can see your creations more objectively and at times they save us from ourselves. The best teams thrive on what we call drudgery and allow us to do our best work.

Look for the people who are strong where you are weak because no creative is an island. Creativity is a team sport. Who is on your team?

Excerpt from my upcoming book, You're Not Creative and Other Lies You Probably Believe About Creativity

Group Leader Comment by David Weiss on October 4, 2016 at 10:00am

What are you making?
Every soften I feel the need to ask the list what you're working on. I'm on a few projects right now. I'm about a quarter of the way into my last Adult Coloring Book of the year, I'm working on publishing a calendar for speakers. It was complete but I formatted the pages incorrectly, so I have to rework them slightly. My hope is to have this done in a week or two so I can release it to other speakers so they can beta test it. In the speaking realm I just finished a series called Imagination, Inspiration, Perspiration, New Creation, Re-Creation. I presented it for the first time last week and it showed some real promise. I also just signed on to speak at a pretty major Christian Writer's Conference next summer. At church I am working on a series preaching through the book of Hebrews that may become another book and I just started working on a project called Identify about knowing who you are in Christ. (I am rushing this one to the forefront because it is weighing so heavily on my Spirit at the moment.) I'm also about half way through a book called You're Not Creative, and other lies you probably believe about creativity as well as an art journaling project for taking sermon notes. Lots of good stuff is coming. What are you working on?

Please take a moment and tell us about your projects in the comments.

Group Leader Comment by David Weiss on September 28, 2016 at 6:14am

Hi everyone, I had another great night last night presenting another part of my series Imagination, Inspiration, Perspiration, New Creation, Re-Creation. I blogged about it here and I would love to get your feedback.

Group Leader Comment by David Weiss on September 26, 2016 at 5:58am

Hi everyone. I posted this to my blog this morning, It is some thoughts I have on Inspiration, which is part of my new presentation "Imagination, Inspiration, Perspiration, New Creation, Re-creation." I would love to get your thoughts on it as well as your views on inspiration. http://48days.net/profiles/blogs/thoughts-on-inspiration

Group Leader Comment by David Weiss on September 6, 2016 at 7:48am

I blogged this this morning I I kind of think it wasn't just for me. http://48days.net/profiles/blogs/getting-back-in-balance?xg_source=...

Group Leader Comment by David Weiss on September 3, 2016 at 8:59am

It Doesn't Need to Perfect...

I wrote this post for AMOKArts.com but I thought it might be really useful here as well.

http://48days.net/profiles/blogs/it-doesn-t-need-to-be-perfect?xg_s...

Group Leader Comment by David Weiss on September 1, 2016 at 8:34pm

Great Storytelling...

My review of the movie Woodlawn!

http://48days.net/profiles/blogs/woodlawn?xg_source=activity

Comment by Adam Garey on August 24, 2016 at 5:32pm

If we have The Holy Spirit and HE points to Christ and we say we are not in Ministry are we unknowingly not recognizing the meaning?

Group Leader Comment by David Weiss on August 24, 2016 at 8:11am

Recently listened to Dan's latest internet radio show and it spawned these thoughts. I'm curious what you think about it...

You're a Minister and If You're Not, You Should Be...

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