“What’s the ROI of creativity? That's like asking, what’s the ROI of electricity?” - Noah Scalin

Noah Scalin is a multidisciplinary artist, author, and co-founder of Another Limited Rebellion, where he helps individuals and organizations unlock their creative capacity through practice, play, and a wildly approachable philosophy: that creativity is a universal human skill you can train.

We talk about why creativity is a muscle, how limitations can actually expand what’s possible (get back in the box!), and what happens to organizations when they treat creativity as infrastructure instead of decoration. We also get into the age of AI, the difference between human expression and machine output, and why doing creative work for yourself might be the secret to showing up better everywhere else.

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Chapters

• (00:00:13) - Flying the Coop: Noah Scalin
• (00:01:23) - How Do You Define Creativity?
• (00:02:47) - How Creativity Affects Your Work
• (00:04:37) - In the Elevator: Creativity and Innovation
• (00:06:54) - On the Future of Creativity
• (00:12:01) - The ROI of Creativity
• (00:15:16) - Is AI Bad for Creativity?
• (00:19:03) - AI and the Question of Creativity
• (00:24:07) - Unlock the Creative Capacity of Your Employees
• (00:29:42) - Honorizing the Hustle
• (00:29:59) - Skull A Day
• (00:30:37) - How to Get Out of the Box
• (00:35:57) - Oh, We Need Some Skulls
• (00:36:48) - Leagues of Space Pirates Are Back
• (00:41:06) - Strategic Messaging