1095: Keeping Your Productive Groove through Movement, Thought, and Rest with Dr. Natalie Nixon

Dr. Natalie Nixon discusses how to develop strategic thinking, prevent burnout, and enhance creativity through her move, rest, and think framework.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The inner skills that make us more strategic and effective

2) The neglected skill that makes us more strategic

3) How to prime your best ideas in 90 seconds

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— ABOUT NATALIE —

Dr. Natalie Nixon, creativity strategist and CEO of Figure 8 Thinking, is known as the ‘creativity whisperer to the C-Suite’ and is the world’s leading authority on the WonderRigor™ Theory. She excels at helping leaders catalyze creativity’s ROI for inspired business results. She is the author of the award-winning The Creativity Leap and the forthcoming Move.Think.Rest.

With a background in cultural anthropology, her career spans global apparel sourcing with The Limited Brands and a 16-year career in academia, where she was the founding director of the Strategic Design MBA at Thomas Jefferson University. She received her BA from Vassar College and her PhD from the University of Westminster in London. She’s a lifelong dancer and a new aficionado of open water swimming.

• Book: Move. Think. Rest.: Redefining Productivity & Our Relationship with Time

• Book: The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

• Website: Figure8Thinking.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Knowing your own heart: Distinguishing interoceptive accuracy from interoceptive awareness” by Sarah N. Garfinkle, et al.

• Study: “Effects of interoceptive training on decision making, anxiety, and somatic symptoms” by Ayako Sugawara, et al.

• App: Fitebo

• Book: How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

• Book: Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross

• Book: Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina

• Book: The Covenant of Water: A Novel by Abraham Verghese

• Book: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

• Book: In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper

• Past episode: 1005: How to Feel Energized Every Day with Dr. Michael Breus

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