Dave Birss: Creativity, conformity, and bipolarity.
Episode 6, Oct 23, 2020, 06:00 AM
Bonjour! In this episode I’m chatting with Dave Birss. Dave is an expert on creativity and innovation - a consultant, keynote speaker and author of A User Guide to the Creative Mind and How To Get Great Ideas.
25 years ago Dave experienced a profound mental health crisis, after which he was retro-diagnosed as being bipolar.
Today Dave thinks of his bipolarism as a superpower which helped him forge his extraordinary career. Listen as we discuss the use medication vs overmedication, how to improve mental health in the workplace (in the advertising industry in particular), how conformity makes us ill, whether or not corporate mental health schemes actually make any difference, and the possibility of the 4 day work week. Let’s get into it shall we?