Angus Fletcher
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3 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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Just say, no, no, no, I've got to.
And they've always got to be doing new things.
And as a result, a lot of creatives make their lives much harder for themselves than they need to be because instead of focusing their creativity on the moments, real opportunity.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so a standard operating procedure is something that you do in a situation that you've encountered before that worked last time.
And this is why I think special forces units like hypothetically Delta Force, if it exists, are brilliant is because they have these special operating procedures that they use immediately.
But then the moment the situation is unfamiliar, they switch out of them and do something new.
You see this also with astronauts.
Astronauts are incredible at this, particularly like the old school astronauts who are the fighter pilots who came off of the Gemini program and whatnot, is they fly the plane or the spaceship by the book.
when everything is normal.
And then the moment that uncertainty happens, they invent an entirely new way of flying the plane that no one else has ever seen before.
And so standard operating procedures are actually important for creativity because what they're doing is they're allowing you not to be creative,
and all the moments where you don't need to be creative, and then you're therefore getting closer to the nature of creativity, which is to meet the moment, as opposed to your own ego, which is saying, I've got to somehow make everything new, because if I don't make everything new, it's not me.
No, no, no.
A first step plan is how you get yourself out of your fight or flight response when you're in a very new situation.
And the reason it's evolved is in combat situations, the first time anyone gets into combat, no matter how much they thought about it ahead of time, no matter how brave and courageous they are, they always panic.
And one of the main reasons, particularly with modern combat, that people panic is because when guns start firing, you actually can't know where they're from.
You can't actually... You're immediately thrown into kind of like a chaos environment, and your brain is like, get out of here.
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