#115 Creativity as a Compass - Anne-Laure Le Cunff on Leaving Google, Freelancing, and Combining Creativity & Neuroscience,
- 0:00 – Video intro
- 0:47 – Introduction
- 1:39 – What were the scripts Anne-Laure grew up with?
- 4:24 – Anne-Laure’s approach to school
- 6:14 – Working at google
- 9:33 – Quitting the job - a new chapter?
- 10:29 – The parents struggling to understand her choices
- 12:38 – Being defensive about her own path
- 13:37 – Admitting you don’t know what you’re doing
- 14:55 – Leaving Google, realizing the startup is still not her path
- 17:38 – Shifting to freelancing
- 20:49 – Diffuse mode thinking
- 22:45 – The generation effect
- 25:24 – Being “scared of idleness”
- 27:27 – Starting to write
- 31:14 – Anne-Laure’s blog when she was 14
- 34:24 – Writing in a second language
- 36:41 – English as the language of the digital world
- 39:24 – Turning her following into a community
- 42:23 – The turning point for Ness labs
- 43:18 – Hiring someone vs working with contractors
- 45:30 – How does Anne-Laure feel about her path?
- 47:00 – Why is it terrifying to know where you’d end up?
- 47:40 – The unexpected upsides of being on an uncertain path
- 49:10 – Anne-Laure’s relationship to the uncertainty in her life
- 50:56 – The change in the way Anne-Laure’s parents see her path
- 51:41 – Anne-Laure’s path role model?
- 53:00 – What has inspired her in the last 6 months?
- 54:25 – Plans for the future
In this episode, I talk with fellow creator and curious human Anne-Laure Le Cunff. She left her job at Google and embarked on an entrepreneurial journey about one month before I did in April 2017. We compare the lessons we have learned over the past five years as well as talk about:
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How her mother’s experience as an immigrant influenced her work scripts
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Her creative interests vs. practical career choices
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Getting into google and getting sucked into the tech world
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Quitting her job and thinking she needed to found a company
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Shifting to freelancing and creating space in her life
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Creating and writing online and building an audience
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Creating in a second language
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Hiring employees vs. hiring contractors
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Pursuing an academic path at the same time as a solopreneur pathHer personal site: Anne-Laure Le Cunff | Wellness, Creativity & Culture
Her newsletter & community: The Maker Mind Newsletter by Anne-Laure Le Cunff (nesslabs.com)
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