008: Upgrading Your Creativity with Esteban Gast

School has never been this much fun. Comedian and creative teacher Esteban Gast shows us how to bring creativity into our every day life, while having a lot of laughs along the way. 

— YOU'LL LEARN — 

1) The most important factor behind great creative ideas.

2) Easy steps you can take to spark creativity in your daily life.

3) Tried and tested tools to help you come up with better ideas, faster.

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— ABOUT ESTEBAN — 

Esteban Gast is a comedian, teacher, and entrepreneur living in Chicago. He teaches creativity at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has co-authored two books and is currently developing an online class on creativity. When he’s not teaching and writing, he’s traveling as a stand up comedian, speaking at TEDx conferences, and making short films. He has also started two small social businesses and was co-director of the iVenture Accelerator - a startup that was just awarded the Ashoka U-Cordes Innovation Award.

• Book: Building Your Creativity: Tools for Having Ideas and Bringing Them to Be 

• Website: estebangast.com

• Esteban’s TEDx talk: ‘The Entertainment Industry must save us.’

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Become an Idea Machine by Claudia Azula Altucher

• Book: Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• Website: 750words.com

• Book: Love Does by Bob Goff

• Book: The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle by Steven Pressfield

• Website: brainpickings.org

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