Do your creative ideas make people think? Are you playing it safe instead of taking risks with your creativity? Phil Cooke offers 8 checkpoints to help you embrace your creative calling, with tips on meeting deadlines, brainstorming techniques, idea development and pitching. https://philcooke.com   Subscribe to My Podcast for more good advice for leaders and creatives: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/phil-cooke-podcast/id1439369056   Prefer video? Watch the YouTube edition here: https://youtu.be/kqoBdaI_Roc   Do you have a message or story the world needs to hear? As a Hollywood producer and media consultant, I offer advice for leaders and creatives each week on filmmaking, digital media, publishing, strategy, communication, leadership, culture and faith – to help you get from where you are to where you want to be in your career. Sign up for my blog and get a free eBook https://www.philcooke.com   Make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you haven’t already at https://www.youtube.com/c/philcookeofficial?sub_confirmation=1   Follow me: Twitter https://twitter.com/philcooke Facebook https://www.facebook.com/philcookepage/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/philcooke/ Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/philcookes-podcast/id1439369056  Find out about Cooke Media Group here: https://www.cookemediagroup.com   Other Great Resources: Get Unique: The Ultimate Planner for Creative Professionals https://amzn.to/2M2ixNo (As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel and allows us to continue making videos like this. Thank you for the support!)   Sign up for my blog and get a free eBook on creativity at https://www.philcooke.com   Follow me: Twitter https://twitter.com/philcooke Facebook https://www.facebook.com/philcookepage/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/philcooke/ Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/philcookes-podcast/id1439369056  Find out about Cooke Media Group here: https://www.cookemediagroup.com   More about this episode: Confrontational Creativity What happens when we value safe creativity over risky creativity? The more we do safe creativity, the more we fall in line and all do the same thing.   Let’s not forget the creativity that force people to think. Here is an 8 point checklist to help you embrace your creative calling with ideas that force people to think.   When was the last time you took a real creative risk? What physical risk have you taken recently – emotional or creative risk to tell the story well? As a creative person, we cannot settle! Push harder, be more confrontational.   Understand that confrontational creativity doesn’t happen by committee. Brainstorming may be good for executing ideas, but not for creating. Radical revolutionary ideas happen when the door is shut and one individual is staring at a blank piece of paper.   Comparison doesn’t ignite radical creativity. Comparison creates copycat creativity! Start delivering what people aren’t expecting.   If you want to get noticed for your confrontational creativity, takes the projects nobody else wants to take and make them rock!   Learn to sell controversial ideas. Learn people skills, how to pitch an idea… how to make your dream their dream, particularly when it comes to unusual or out of the box ideas.   Understand it takes experience to know how far to push a confrontational idea.   Creativity is not about the Eureka moment. It’s about the days, weeks, months, years of preparation that go into making that idea happen.   To make our creativity more provocative, more confrontational – we need to worry less about keeping our job and more about doing an amazing job.   If you have a creative calling, rise up and embrace it. Be the creative person God has called you to be.