If you earn your living as a creative professional, you’ll be familiar with what Todd Henry of Accidental Creative describes as “the pressure to be brilliant at a moment’s notice”.

While we can all do this from time to time, the key to success in a creative career is the ability to do it again and again – without burning yourself out in the process.

I recently had the pleasure of asking Todd some questions about this and other issues he covers in his new book The Accidental Creative – and we recorded the interview for you to download and listen to.

Topics we cover include:

• Who or what is an ‘Accidental Creative’?
• How to be sustainably brilliant
• The importance of eating your ‘mental vegetables’
• The value of unnecessary creating
• Why cover bands don’t change the world

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Photo by Szilveszter Farkas

Once upon a time, I was frustrated on a daily basis by my computer.

It kept crashing, refusing to connect to the internet, and interrupting me with asinine pop-up messages.

It lost me hours of productivity every week.

I rang the computer supplier. They blamed the parts supplier. I rang the parts supplier, they blamed the computer supplier.

Then I bought a MacBook Pro.

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This post is part of the Break Through Your Creative Blocks series.

Out of all the blog series I’ve written over the past six years, I’ve never had so many requests for an ebook version as for the Creative Blocks series.

And your wish is my command.

I’ve collected the entire series into an ebook: 20 Creative Blocks (and How to Break Through Them).

It’s yours to download and share. For free.

No opt-in, no product launch, no hoops or hooplah. Just 20 articles full of practical advice on achieving your creative ambitions.

Download your copy of 20 Creative Blocks (and How to Break Through Them).

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