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The world is full of creative people. So why do some get their ideas out in the world while others don't? Why are some incredibly prolific while others struggle with deadlines or can't complete projects? In this book, Jason F. McLennan--a master in ""getting stuff done""--shares secrets to boosting productivity, innovation, and personal success. McLennan's recipe for creative success includes the following ideas: Look forward to failure Discover the power of feedback Learn to become a ""trim tab"" Harness the power of momentum to drive creativity We've all heard the phrase ""the perfect is the enemy of the good."" Perfection is often what holds so many people back. Trying to reach it means that nothing much can get completed, and inspiration itself is often blocked as people either procrastinate or endlessly self-edit. By chasing perfection, it remains elusively further away. The world is full of half-baked ideas--but almost no perfect ones. With The Magic of Imperfection, listeners will learn how to seriously amp up what they do, how fast they do it, and simultaneously how well it gets done.

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Jason F. McLennan is considered one of the world's most influential individuals in architecture and sustainability. Chief sustainability officer at Perkins&Will, he founded the Living Building Challenge and International Living Future Institute. McLennan has won numerous awards, including the Buckminster Fuller Prize and ENR Award of Excellence. His work spans Fortune 500 companies, leading educational institutions, and major sports venues, including Climate Pledge Arena. Mitch Crawford grew up telling narrative, improvisational stories with his brother, using stuffed animals, tiny army men, and Star Trek action figures as characters. This carried forward to adulthood, crafting such stories with his children, as well as reading storybooks, picture books, and young adult literature aloud to all five offspring. He once read all nineteen original Gertrude Chandler Warner Boxcar Children books to his two young boys one summer, chipping away at them each night before bedtime. A high school teacher for twenty years in history, economics, fine arts, and computer science, Mitch realized that voice inflection, vocal and kinesthetic surprises, and even reading aloud helped keep his students engaged in course material. Now an actor, model, and voice-over artist, his personal branding invokes the smart, funny, and occasionally aloof dad or guy-next-door, or the serious and principled lawyer, doctor, or businessperson. This personal history and these characteristics have helped develop a sincere, trustworthy voice that resonates well with children's literature, first- and third-person POV fiction, nonfiction, biography/memoir, and self-help books. A graduate of Villanova University with a dual major in psychology and philosophy, and an MA and teacher's certification from The Ohio State University, Mitch does his homework and knows how to relate to his audience. For fun, he played volleyball for Villanova in the late 1980s when short shorts and high socks were en vogue. After twenty-five-plus years of that, he switched to tennis, which takes a lesser toll on his body (well, sort of). Mitch loves hiking and traveling with his wife, sneaking out to Five Guys with step-daughter Grace, and being outdoors with their dogs, Izzy and Grommit.

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