David Chislett

David Chislett is a speaker, trainer and writer who has been working in the creative fields since 1994. He aims to change the world by helping people and organisations tap into their inherent capacity for creativity. David believes that Creativity holds the answers to many of the social and economic ills of our world and hopes to help more people discover their own options and choices by accessing their ability to create them. David is also a working poet and publishes work regularly on https://www.patreon.com/davidchislett. To learn more about his training and speaking offerings, head over to https://davidchislett.com

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Go Get Bored

Go Get Bored. When last did you do nothing? I mean really nothing. No phone, no laptop, no book, no company, no conversation. Oddly it was probably while you were doing something that you do...

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Change resilience - how bad is yours? Are you positioned to deal with change? Recent reactions to the emergence of a Large Language Model limited artificial intelligence suggest that many of us, including experts, are...

Did Star Trek get it right?

Did Star Trek get it right? Hundreds of years ago, teams or people started work on buildings that would not be completed before they died. In some cases, these buildings were not completed until 25...

Burn the schools

Burn the schools. Sir Ken Robinson claimed that School kills creativity. NASA studies prove that we start out as creative geniuses, but that by the time we reach adulthood, only 2 percent of us still...

Do humans dream of electric sheep?

Do humans dream of electric sheep? What is work going to look like in the future? Post-pandemic opinion seems to be radically split between wanting it to look exactly like it did (the back to...

It’s A New Year And A New Start

It’s A New Year And A New Start. After the Second World War, there was a lot of interest in creativity. Why, people wanted to know, were we able to invent so many sophisticated technologies for...

Poetry is solving Maverick problems

Poetry is solving Maverick problems. Stuck with a problem? Can’t figure out the answer, the solution? Write a poem. I know, right? Crazy! But hear (read) me out! All a poem is, is an exploration of an idea,...

The Paradox Of Creativity

The Paradox Of Creativity. The Maverick, the creative, the rule breaker, the outlier. But also the structured thinker, the subject matter expert and an organiser. How can these contradictions live side by side? Because they are...

Suspending Judgement to Resist Polarisation

Suspending Judgement to Resist Polarisation. The 21st century is seeing a rise in political and social polarisation not seen in decades. It is fuelling all sorts of changes and dividing entire countries. It is a way...

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