A few words about Fishbird from founder, Jason Watt. Click to play.
From our friends over at The 99%, a great video to watch this weekend. Frans Johansson, author of the best-selling The Medici Effect, on pushing through failure and executing big ideas.
The key? Start anywhere.
Nice video from Big Think on employee motivation with MIT Behavioral Economics professor Dan Ariely. This falls right into Fishbird’s thinking. How do you innovate to motivate? As Zappos seems to have a grasp on, it’s bigger than a paycheck.
The Procrastinators – episode 7 from Lernert & Sander on Vimeo.
This is a nice little video series by Dutch design team Lernert & Sander on procrastination. Over the past year, they interviewed a variety of their fellow countrymen – artists, writers, musicians – to see how each tackle the issue of postponing their day to day work. Why don’t we just do things? Why do we put them off for a later time?
Besides the beautiful, simple video, the series speaks to some universal elements that we all face as creatives. This video in particular spoke to us, not only because it’s been translated into English, but also because of the artist’s discussion of “box fresh,” a story about how he never wanted use his new colored pencils or new paints because they were too beautiful to mess with. The beauty of these things, from the brand new paints to the blank writer’s page, are all things we as artists need to get past, for creativity is really about getting dirty.
If you’re a Dutch speaker, check out the rest of The Procrastinators’ series at Limboland. Or just check them out for the great video.
Whatever you do, don’t put it off.
Something about the words in this simple White Stripes’ song we really like. Listen close.
Although we talk a lot in Fishbird about the power of awareness and choice, this fascinating example of our brains’ hardwiring showcases the fact that being aware of something does not always allow us to choose something different. We’ve been watching this video for the past week and we still can’t get over it.
Ba. Ba. Ba.
Nice little video here courtesy of The 99 Percent and author Joshua Foer on failure. A common topic on the Fishbird site, Foer delves deep into the idea of studying ourselves while we fail.
And a little side note: after watching this, you’re going to try and type faster. Trust us, it’s happening.
2011/03 Ji Lee from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.
We’ve been following Ji for some time now, watching him move from creative work at Google to more creative work at Facebook. Here he gives an inspiring talk on making your personal projects public and your public projects personal. We know the running time is long, but bear with it. It’s so good. Lesson learned: share yourself more. People want to know you.
