Todd Henry is an author, a speaker, a blogger, a podcaster and an inspiration in the creative community. His topic of expertise is creativity, productivity, and leadership.

His books include:

• The Accidental Creative: teaches people and teams how to build practices that lead to everyday brilliance. It walks you through a step-by-step process for being prolific, brilliant, and healthy in life and work. (2011)
• Die Empty: unlocks the forces that cause even the brightest, most skilled people to become stuck, and introduces practices that helps them get moving again.(2013)
• Louder than Words: teaches you how to build a body of work that resonates deeply with your intended audience. ( 2015 )
• Herding Tigers: teaches how to be the leader that creative people need.
• The Motivation Code: Discover the Hidden Forces That Drive Your Best Work: What motivate us? Henry shows, that there are twenty-seven “motivational themes”, each with its own unique DNA. By learning about these motivational themes we discover how to motivate ourselves and how to motivate members of our team.

Highlights from the interview

• Creativity is problem-solving, which is not the same as creating art.
• Don’t wait for inspiration to come to start doing creative work. Start doing the work, and let creativity come when it comes.
• Be conscious of the inputs in your life, inputs like food, friends, information, entertainment, education. If you sit around and drink beer all day long, that’s not a great input. If you read, spend time with positive-minded friends, and eat a healthy diet, then you are putting the good stuff into your body and mind.

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