Listen to your fears. Listen to your longings. Dare to make beautiful mistakes.
André Platteel rode the fast track in his career in the creative industry, likening the success to feeling like a drug. When that fell out from under his feet, he realised that he needed to take the time to reflect on who he was and what creativity meant to him. In this poignant talk, he explores the avenues in which we can leverage the opportunity to restart, to embrace our true selves, and enable creativity to flow naturally through us in the process.
About the speaker
André Platteel is a Dutch novelist (Alles Hiervoor and Net Veertien), and founder of Your Lab, a platform that's all about creativity: How does one enter a state of continued creation and thus rediscover and redesign themselves and the world around them, again and again? He works for creative agencies and corporate companies worldwide to train strategists and creatives to reach this state of openness.
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Maybe that’s the biggest journey you have to make. The journey is not outward but it’s the journey inward to battle your own demons and to make space - really make space for creativity to flow through you.
It was beautiful because the pressure of success was gone and the time to explore what my creativity was, what I wanted to put into this world, started.
One thing is for sure, we are all creative beings. But do we give ourselves the time, and the space, and the environment to experiment that? To find that out?
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