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Erik: How has changing your surroundings made you more creative?
Jason: To tap in to the most creative part of your mind, no matter if you think you're
a creative person or not, you always have to change your surroundings. The whole idea
of going and sitting in a coffee shop and working all day long, I don't get. But if
you change your coffee shop every single day, like I can't work in a coffee shop, but they
can change their coffee shop every single day and that's awesome, like I love the idea.
Since I've started a business I haven't actually done this but I used to take 2 months off
every four years, and just change my surroundings, just go to a different place, and I still
do that, make time for that and figure out how to do that because if I don't, I'll get
stale and I'll get stuck. And I think that the more you change your surroundings, the
more creative that you can be. And the more you force yourself almost into places that
you would never even think can make you more creative. If you're really seeking being more
creative and trying to like, unleash or unlock some creative juices as they say, go to the
place that you don't think will make you creative. I don't know where that is for you. For me,
that could be a library. Because to me that's boring. But I went to the library the other
day and I was like, "look at all this -- this is crazy." And what was crazy, it wasn't the
books, it wasn't what was in the library, on the shelves. It was all the technology
that's now in the New York City Public Library System. And I was like, "Oh, look at this,
they've got this, they've got all these different things that the last time I was at the library,
really at the library, it was nothing like that. And so it did make me more creative.