FLAME with Brad Hook
Creativity Isn't a Talent. It's a Survival Skill.
Careers stopped being ladders a while ago. Dirk Matthews makes the case that creative resilience — not any single skill — is what carries people through change.
Dirk leads the National Career Development Association, which gives him a rare view of how working lives are actually unfolding: non-linear, multi-chaptered, and increasingly built by people with more than one calling. We dig into 'multipotentiality' — the reality that many people aren't meant to be one thing — and why career development is a different discipline from simply finding a job.
The conversation also goes somewhere most career talk doesn't: the stories young people are being sold about fame, influence and meaningful work, and what better stories would look like. Plus the practices underneath it all — meditation, centredness, spirituality — and how organisations still carrying pandemic-era trauma can help their people move through change more humanely.
In this episode
- Creative resilience as a framework for navigating change
- Creativity beyond artists — a capacity for everyone
- Non-linear careers and multipotentiality as the new normal
- Better stories for young people than fame and influence
- How meditation and centredness support creative work
- Leading people through change after organisational trauma
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