This morning I attended my first "Creative Mornings" session. CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for all sorts of creative types. Each event is free of charge and includes breakfast (tea/coffee and pastries) as well as a short 20-30 minute lecture. I only recently heard about CreativeMornings so was intrigued...but I was extremely impressed this morning and came away feeling very inspired. Today's speaker, Fredrick Haren, author of Ideas Book, gave a humorous, engaging talk which was extremely insightful. He has become one of the most talked-about names in our industry and lucky for us he is based in Singapore! His talks focus on creativity, idea generation and entrepreneurship and today's "Creating Your Own Creative Life" was an insight into Haren's life and how he approaches "new ideas".
Haren began be introducing us to "four things he loves and combines":
- CREATIVITY
- THE WORLD
- IMPULSES
- SITTING AND THINKING
So how does he combine these to generate new ideas. Well, he spends two months of every year, sat on his own island (bought on impulse) in Sweden (his home country) simply "sitting and thinking" to generate new ideas and write his creative books. He then spends another two months of the year on another island he owns just off the coast of the Philippines. When he's not there, he lets other people live on the island in order to help themselves be more creative...what an amazing idea!
"Ideas Island was created as a safe haven for creatives. A place made to inspire and motivate people with great ideas to make those ideas happen. Created to give people the time and space needed to sit down and focus on their ideas - while at the same time feeling great. Ideas Island is a 30,000 sq/m big, private island in Palawan, Philippines that you get exclusive access to. Yes, you get the whole island to yourself so that you can focus on finalising whatever idea you want to make happen. It has been created to make it as inspiring, relaxing and enjoying as possible to sit and work on ideas." Check out the website here : http://www.ideasisland.com/
I left the session completely inspired. Within such a short space of time Fredrik really got me thinking. A) about how I can look at my life differently ad B) how I can help to inspire the other designers within my studio in the same way that Haren inspired me. I look forward to the next CreativeMornings session. If anyone is interested in learning more about CreativeMornings you can check out the website here : http://www.creativemornings.com/
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- CREATIVITY
- THE WORLD
- IMPULSES
- SITTING AND THINKING
So how does he combine these to generate new ideas. Well, he spends two months of every year, sat on his own island (bought on impulse) in Sweden (his home country) simply "sitting and thinking" to generate new ideas and write his creative books. He then spends another two months of the year on another island he owns just off the coast of the Philippines. When he's not there, he lets other people live on the island in order to help themselves be more creative...what an amazing idea!
"Ideas Island was created as a safe haven for creatives. A place made to inspire and motivate people with great ideas to make those ideas happen. Created to give people the time and space needed to sit down and focus on their ideas - while at the same time feeling great. Ideas Island is a 30,000 sq/m big, private island in Palawan, Philippines that you get exclusive access to. Yes, you get the whole island to yourself so that you can focus on finalising whatever idea you want to make happen. It has been created to make it as inspiring, relaxing and enjoying as possible to sit and work on ideas." Check out the website here : http://www.ideasisland.com/
I left the session completely inspired. Within such a short space of time Fredrik really got me thinking. A) about how I can look at my life differently ad B) how I can help to inspire the other designers within my studio in the same way that Haren inspired me. I look forward to the next CreativeMornings session. If anyone is interested in learning more about CreativeMornings you can check out the website here : http://www.creativemornings.com/
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