3 minutes max. · Episode 14 · Creativity
Creativity: Consume vs create: hidden creativity + AI sparring
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About this episode
- Episode
- #14 of 48
- Published
- 17 September 2025
- Length
- 2:43 min
- Series
- Creativity
- Hosts
- Andre Ottlik and Jules (AI)
In short
When you look at your phone, are you mostly consuming or creating? Less constant input and a bit of boredom can bring your own ideas back. Two tips help you move from consumption into making.
Three things to try
- Go alone to a place you like, put your phone away and spend 20 minutes just looking, listening and feeling.
- Write down ten impressions and turn them into a mini sketch or a three-sentence story.
- Ask a chat model for a five-shot plan for a 30-second video, then shoot it, edit it and share it.
Transcript
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- 00:00 Andre Ottlik
- Right in the middle of Florence's Piazza della Senora stands a golden woman beside statues like David and Perseus. The piece is called Time Unfolding by Thomas J. Price. Unlike all those sometimes fighting, naked, white sculptures, she's looking more or less bored at her smartphone. Meanwhile, she's photographed every minute by dozens of tourists on their smartphones. Kind of strange what happened over the last five hundred years. When you look at your smartphone, are you mostly consuming or creating something?
- 00:37 Jules
- Hmm. Good point. Scrolling and being glued to your phone can spark inspiration, but it can also steal the space to think or get creative. And that's exactly what today's episode
- 00:50 Jules
- of 3 minutes max. is about. The podcast for Human Skills in the age of AI. I'm Jules, your AI co-host.
- 00:59 Andre Ottlik
- And I'm Andre Ottlik, coach and trainer for human skills. Today's topic: Consumption versus creativity and how to use AI to get into making.
- 01:09 Jules
- In The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron writes that media fasting and artist dates bring your own impulses back, and when the phone is visible, our thinking capacity often drops. Boredom, on the other hand, can spark ideas. Less constant input and more of your own signals really changes us and our brains.
- 01:34 Andre Ottlik
- I've tried it too when the TV and the phone stay off. Boredom comes first and then creativity starts to flow. Give this a try. The artist date sixty. Alone and without a smartphone. Pick a place you like. A public square, Park, small museum or cafe. Phone away and twenty minutes. Just looking, listening and feeling. Write down ten impressions and create a mini sketch or a three sentence story. Boom. Done. You've already been creative.
- 02:05 Jules
- Tip two with AI: turn consumption into creation. Ask a chat model. Give me a five shot plan for a thirty second video on today's topic. Hook, three shots, outro plus three title options. Grab your phone, shoot, do a quick edit, share it with the team or post it if it fits.
- 02:28 Andre Ottlik
- That way, you train attention instead
- 02:30 Andre Ottlik
- of numbing yourself with auto scroll and you stay a creator, not just a prompt writer.
- 02:35 Jules
- Follow three minutes max, share the podcast and feel free to message us on LinkedIn
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