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Reclaiming Your Creativity–No Matter Your Role with Tania Katan
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Reclaiming Your Creativity–No Matter Your Role with Tania Katan



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In this episode of the How to Be Awesome at Your Job podcast, creativity expert Tania Katan makes the case for creativity as a fundamental, joyful, enriching human ability — one ability AI cannot replicate. As automation expands, she argues, people must lean into their inherent capacity to generate original ideas, solve problems in new ways, and bring energy and humanity to everyday tasks. Katan offers practical ways to boost creativity, such as using constraints to generate ideas, asking, “What if?” and finding inspiration in daily life.

Summary

Everyone has creative ability. Boost yours by giving yourself permission to take risks.

Creativity involves the ability to generate unexpected ideas and express them without shame or fear of making mistakes. Everyone is naturally creative, but many people lose touch with their creativity as they become adults and feel pressured to conform to the status quo. But the ability never entirely disappears. Creativity is a birthright, and you can reclaim it by choosing to practice and cultivate it again.

Give yourself permission to trust your impulses and take creative risks. You can begin to open yourself gently to creative possibilities by asking the question, “What if?” Often, imposing constraints on a situation can spur innovative thinking. For example, when artist Meg Duguid wanted to open a gallery in Chicago, financial limitations forced her to think creatively. The result was Clutch Gallery, a tiny gallery that exists within a clutch purse, where she displays rotating exhibitions of miniature artworks...

About the Podcast

Tania Katan is a creativity expert, playwright, and author. Her books include Creative Trespassing and the memoir My One-Night Stand with Cancer. Pete Mockaitis is host of the How to Be Awesome at Your Job podcast.


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