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🧪 Discover the #1 Skill for Creative Freedom 🎉

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Creativity Chronicles​
Unlocking Creative Joy, One Week at a Time

The #1 Skill for Creative Freedom: PLAY!

Feeling stuck in a creative rut? Or curious about how to tap into the magic of AI experimentation? Let's dive into the playful world of creativity together.

🧪 Experimentation as a Superpower

If you don't try AI, you won't know what it is. If you don't play (in general), you won't enjoy its pleasures!

In the video above, Allie Miller reminds us: 'You can't understand the value of AI—or creativity—without playing with it.' In her signature caffeinated style, she drives home the power of experimentation and rapid iteration. And she's right: play is where the magic happens.

Speaking of play, let me share a game-changing tool I've discovered through experimentation—ElevenLabs' GenFM.

🎧 AI Meets Creativity: Try GenFM

Ever wanted to turn dense articles or PDFs into quick, conversational audio summaries? Meet GenFM by ElevenLabs. With just a few taps, this free app transforms your reading list into a personalized podcast experience—perfect for multitasking while cooking or commuting! 👇

NotebookLM's ground-breaking Audio Summary feature is only two months old, and now generative AI audio leader, Eleven Labs, has simplified and expanded on those mind-boggling capabilities with its new GenFM feature. GenFM is part of the iOS ElevenLabs Reader app. (Yes. It’s free to play with! 🆓.)

GenFM is simpler to use because it's an iPhone app (soon for Android too). The ElevenLabs Reader app was already useful because it reads to you, turning virtually any source of text into a customizable audiobook-like listening experience.

Now, Reader's GenFM summarizes your latest "thing you want to read but don't feel like reading with your eyes" into that chatty two-person AI-generated audio podcast format, and it does this with comparable ease. 🎧

I tested it with Allie Miller's 29-page Annual Goal Planning Template. GenFM turned it into an 11-minute conversational summary, and I listened to it while prepping dinner. It saved me time and gave me a solid, easy-to-listen-to overview of Allie's planning process. ⏰

🖌️ Your Turn to Play

How will you be more creative this week? Please reply and let me know. I’d love to hear!

Remember, don’t let your creative spark stay locked inside. Let's play!

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Creativity Evangelist, Video & AI Marketing Expert

Jon Leland, media pioneer, creative director

I founded the Creativity Sandbox Community to help people not die with their creative sparks still stuck inside. The proven-to-be-successful Creativity Sandbox Framework combines the creative chutzpah of pure play, the accountability & support that comes from participation in our community, and the power of putting in the reps by practicing a practice. I am also a passionate advocate for showing your face through using video in all forms and in leveraging the astounding power of AI as a creativity enhancer, always with the Human in the Loop.

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