AI can’t assimilate your originality

AI can’t assimilate your originality.

Right now, everyone, and every business, urgently needs to hone their creative skills.

Why? Because AI is getting more sophisticated, routine work may soon be the preserve of the machine.

So our time will be freed up for creative work. For having ideas.

This need is increasingly pressing. Today the UK government is proposing a new law. It may permit AI companies to train algorithms using freely available, but copyrighted, data.

Creators are angry. It threatens their material and livelihoods.

But here’s the thing -

The machine can't replicate your original thinking.

Ideas are your competitive advantage

The best things come from someone with an idea.

Ideas are your competitive advantage.

So, let's learn to be more creative. Whatever your domain or sector.

How?

9 great, truly original minds - from top Salvador Dalí, Freddie Mercury, JK Rowling

Second row - Georges Perec, Genesis Belanger, David Bowie

Third row - Zaha Hadid, Billy Connolly, Marcel Duchamp

I've curated 9 inspired techniques of 9 original minds -

1. Exercise restriction - Freddie Mercury composed Crazy Little Thing Called Love using just 4 chords

2. Record - Billy Connolly’s most side-splitting stories are drawn from memories of his life growing up in Glasgow

3. Swim against the tide - JK Rowling deliberately wrote about themes that had gone out of fashion

4. Engineer randomness - David Bowie handwrote phrases, cut them up and reformed them to create lyrics he wouldn’t otherwise have conceived

5. Challenge the norm - Georges Perec wrote an entire novel without using the letter ‘e’

6. Mix old and new - Genesis Belanger incorporates bits of classic furniture in fresh ceramics

7. Use different outlets - Zaha Hadid painted to inform and imagine her buildings in the world

8. Dream - Salvador Dalí gathered visual ideas by tapping into his subconscious

9. Repurpose - Marcel Duchamp reimagined the common urinal as art.

9 unique minds. 9 ways to maximise your unique advantage.

And be AI-proof.

What’s your favourite? Do you have any others?