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Your 10-Step Guide to Cracking the Creative Process—and Getting Awesome Results

Updated 6/19/2020
Your 10-Step Guide to Cracking the Creative Process—and Getting Awesome Results
This video with Tiffany Shlain will remind you that failure can teach you a lot about your creative process—and hopefully put you on the path to success.

If you Google Tiffany Shlain today, you’ll see she has quite the list of accomplishments. But even she had to start somewhere. When she was in her early 20s, she spent four years producing a motion picture that ultimately flopped.

From that failure and others, she developed a 10-stage creative process. And in this video, she talks through these stages—and how to tackle each one.

To finish your project (and to finish it well), you’ll have to trudge through the tough parts. But remember: Don’t focus on just getting to the end. Embrace each part of the process—after all, often the journey ends up being the most rewarding.


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Abby is a writer, career coach, and health educator living in Portland, Maine. When she’s not trying to make the world a happier and healthier place, you can find her cuddling with her cats, hunting down the city's best coffee and grilled cheese, or dipping her toes in the Atlantic. Say hi on Twitter .
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