John Cleese on Creativity

just watched this earlier and thought there was a lot of good advice to be found:

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Much has been said about how creativity works, its secrets, its origins, and what we can do to optimize ourselves for it. In this excerpt from his fantastic 1991 lecture, John Cleese offers a recipe for creativity, delivered with his signature blend of cultural insight and comedic genius. Specifically, Cleese outlines “the 5 factors that you can arrange to make your lives more creative”:

• Space (“You can’t become playful, and therefore creative, if you’re under your usual pressures.”)
   
  
• Time (“It’s not enough to create space; you have to create your space for a specific period of time.”)
   
  
• Time (“Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate thediscomfort of pondering time and indecision.)
   
  
• Confidence (“Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”)
   
  
• Humor (“The main evolutionary significance of humoris that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.”)
  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ijtQP9nwrQA

http://www.brainpick...reativity-1991/

I enjoyed it, hopefully you will too.

Good advice indeed! Thanks for sharing this. I also saw this today, more inspiring words from another brilliant human being:

Neato, will give this a watch. That is an awesome quote by Vonnegut.

First two posts were on point. I may have to watch that lecture now

art is great and most important.

tonight for the next 8 hours is my designated creative space/time.

i'll try watching some humor for a bit, see if that opens some pathways. I actually think that might be great advice.

i do usually like to watch a movie for a bit to get in the mood.

This is more about innovation as a whole rather than from an individual point of view, but still interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

  On 7/12/2012 at 3:48 AM, vamos scorcho said:

i'll try watching some humor for a bit, see if that opens some pathways. I actually think that might be great advice.

sometimes i like to play a standup comedy show or radio interviews with comedians in the background while i fiddle around with something like cutting up samples or toying with synth patches. Makes tedious stuff enjoyable