20 Movie Clips About The Creative Moment of Conception

As a companion piece to The Prolific Framework, I’ve been building and publishing a series of case studies about the moment of conception, which is the single spark of life that signals an idea’s movement value.

If you haven’t been following this blog for the past few months, each post contains a short video clip from one of my favorite movies, along with three creativity lessons we can learn from the characters.

Good news. I’m delighted to share that the reviews, comments, social shares and audience feedback for these case studies has been off the charts. I deeply appreciate everyone who reached out to share their thoughts and make suggestions for future clips. Fear not, there are 40 more of these case studies completed and queued up for publication:

In case you missed a few along the way, here is a list and links to the first 20 posts:

Moments of Conception 001 — Coyote
Ugly

Learn to stop resisting
and start creating.

Moments of Conception 002 —
The Social Network

Learn to get the idea to
ground zero.

Moments of Conception 003 —
Jerry Maguire

Learn to memorialize your
process with a product.

Moments
of Conception 004 — Dead Poets Society

Learn
to love what’s good
for you.

Moments
of Conception 005 — The Pirates of Silicon Valley

Learn
to steal
ideas from everybody you meet.

Moments
of Conception 006 — A Beautiful Mind

Learn
to respond with the right organ.

Moments
of Conception 007 — The Rainmaker

Learn
to go fishing for inspiration.

        

Moments
of Conception 008 — Tommy Boy

Learn
to initiate through anger.

Moments
of Conception 009 — As Good As It Gets

Learn
to listen for what wants to be written.

Moments
of Conception 010 — Steve Jobs

Learn
to restructure the system around constraints.

Moments
of Conception 011 — High Fidelity

Learn
to know those in the know.

Moments
of Conception 012 — The Doors

Learn
to get fresh fuel
for your ideas.

Moments
of Conception 013 — Eight Mile

Learn
to create the user interface
for your brain.

Moments
of Conception 014 — What Women Want

Learn
to leave people’s campsites
better.

Moments
of Conception 015 — Patch Adams

Learn
to sniff out resonant identities.

Moments
of Conception 016 — October Sky

Learn to build cognitive richness.

Moments
of Conception 017 — The Hudsucker Proxy

Learn
to capture people’s imaginations.

Moments
of Conception 018 — Moneyball

Learn
to walk in and create a problem.

Moments
of Conception 019 — Throw Mama From The Train

Learn
to establish gentle flow.

Moments
of Conception 020 — Walk The Line

Learn
to make the word flesh.

If you can think of a movie with an inspiring or interesting moment of conception, just email [email protected] and I’ll be sure to give you credit when it’s published.

Happy creating.