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Episode 224 – The Best of 2015, Part 2

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Happy 2016 to each and every one of the Smart People Podcast listeners out there! It’s Jon’s turn to take a look back on 2015 and puts together clips from his favorite episodes of the past year! He identified 4 areas of his life in which he wanted to improve and hand-picked 4 episodes that inspired him to make changes in those areas. Too anxious to wait and hear the areas on the podcast? Here are the spoilers for you:

Productivity
Sales
Time Management
Creativity

Here’s to making 2016 the year dedicated to a better you!

Jon’s favorite episodes of 2015:

Episode 174 – Dave Birss
Episode 180 – Kory Kogon
Episode 186 – Lee Cockerell
Episode 194 – Bob Burg

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Episode 208 – Rosie Von Lila – A Burning Man Insider

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Rosie Von Lila, creator of The Von Lila Framework

Do you know what Burning Man is? If not, listen to this episode. If you do, have you ever wondered how it started? Who decided to gather some friends and head into the desert to do….well, whatever they wanted? And perhaps more importantly, how do we as a society use these examples to uncover what is behind increasing citizen engagement and human creativity? This week on the show we speak with Rosie Von Lila – an expert in increasing human engagement and unlocking potential.

As a former marketing maven for the Burning Man organization, Rosie saw firsthand what ingredients were necessary to bring people together to create something incredible. She has parlayed that knowledge into creating the Von Lila Framework, to inspire people to build a more beautiful world. It was written through research spanning the globe from Cairo to the Cape Town flats, San Francisco to Tel Aviv to Cambridge, and beyond. The Von Lila Framework is shaped through Rosie’s 16+ years of generating participatory culture, working with the Burning Man organization and studying and honing just what goes into creating highly engaged creative cultures.

Rosie is a force of nature positively impacting the lives of awake souls the world over who are ready for more. She is a passionate and powerful voice of hope and reason, here to inspire others to embody resourcefulness, resilience, playfulness, generosity, and transparency. She speaks around the world on how to increase citizen/participant/human engagement — from SXSW to USAID military personnel and government officials, to Reimagining The American Dream and The Conference.

Resources

http://www.vonlila.com/

twitter.com/rosievonlila

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Episode 205 – Lars Tvede – Western Society is Killing Creativity, Here’s How We Fix It

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Lars Tvede, author of, ‘The Creative Society: How the Future Can Be Won’

Human creativity has been one of the fundamental drivers of civilization. Often our creativity has baffled skeptics by allowing us to find new and better resources, unexpected environmental technologies and genuinely amazing products that no one had predicted. However, like so many before it, Western civilization is now suffering from serious internal decay with its bloated public sectors, punitive taxes, over-regulation, marginalized citizens, stagnation, debt, unemployment and pessimism. In this episode, we speak with Lars Tvede about how to regain our creative edge in the West, and why we lost it in the first place.

Lars is the author of the new book, The Creative Society: How the Future Can Be Won. He is a serial entrepreneur and author of numerous books on subjects ranging from economics, financial markets and the future. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in International Commerce.

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“I looked at the maps of where creativity was occurring throughout history and I found that it almost only happened when you had small city-states. As soon as a nation become centralized, the creativity dropped.”
– Lars Tvede

Quotes from Lars:

“I like to stay with a company until they get a human resources department, then I check out. I like the newness and the fact that there’s no politics.”

“People who have never started a business don’t understand how even something that sounds simple can be so complicated.”

“The pleasure of dealing with things directly, how you think they should be dealt with, gives you an enormous feeling of freedom and power.”

“Whether you have a company, or from a societal view, if you want creativity in some of your activities you need to find ways to decentralize.”

What we learn in this episode:

• What does Lars believe is the best part about being an entrepreneur?
• Why has the “West” created approximately 97% of all of the world’s innovation?
• How can countries foster more creativity?

Resources:

The Creative Society: How the Future Can Be Won

http://www.larstvede.com/

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