{"id":15651,"date":"2011-01-24T15:33:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T13:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=15651"},"modified":"2011-01-24T15:33:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T13:33:48","slug":"how-to-solve-creative-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=15651","title":{"rendered":"How to Solve Creative Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\"   value=\"videoId=723307440001&#038;playerID=651017566001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAGuNzXFE~,qu1BWJRU7c26MMkbB19ukwmFB5ysvYz5&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>People have trouble living creatively when they don<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have trouble living creatively when they don<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52443,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=52443","url_meta":{"origin":15651,"position":0},"title":"Tony Schwartz: To Solve Big Problems, Change Your Process","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"07\/07\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/99360138 In this 99U talk, bestselling author Tony Schwartz issues a challenge: The world is full of intractable problems like climate change that require new and creative thinking. 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