Forum / John Cleese on Creativity
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Sally HoutmanFeb 04, 08:17am“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”
John Cleese's 1991 lecture on Creativity. If you've got about 36 minutes, well worth the watch (particularly about the last 10 - 12 min):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg&feature=player_embedded
"We need to be in the open mode when pondering a problem — but! — once we come up with a solution, we must then switch to the closed mode to implement it. Because once we’ve made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness."
"This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious."
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Letitia CoyneFeb 04, 10:41amA less likeable genius, but well worth keeping around. Excellent advice, too.
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DolemiteFeb 04, 09:20pmLoosen up your assumptions by playing with deliberately crazy connections...when playing, nothing is wrong
Yep.
;-)
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Sally HoutmanFeb 05, 03:01am
I loved the term "intermediate improbables" - for those little nonsense phrases you think of and insert as placeholders until the proper phrase is found. Now they have a name.
Annnnnnd...the idea that if the solution to a problem arrived easily - you didn't dig hard enough.
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DolemiteFeb 05, 03:04am
"intermediate improbables"
Yeah, that was my favorite part too, but due to the nature of the thing I didn't know how to use it in my quote!
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Sally HoutmanFeb 05, 03:35am
you should have tried harder - must notta been in open mode
:)
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DolemiteFeb 05, 03:46am
HA!
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Sally HoutmanFeb 05, 03:48am
my hovercraft is full of eels
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DolemiteFeb 05, 04:14am
Shhh...
(creatfultivity is frowned upon here...)
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Letitia CoyneFeb 05, 04:53am
Don't mention the war. I did once, but I think I got away with it....
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DolemiteFeb 05, 04:56am
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Sally HoutmanFeb 05, 05:09am
Watch it guys. This is bordering on creativity. It must stop.
But first...for something completely different...
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DolemiteFeb 05, 05:20am
But father...!
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Sally HoutmanFeb 05, 05:37am
You wanna argue about it?
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DolemiteFeb 05, 05:46am
BOIN THE WITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sally HoutmanFeb 05, 05:57am
you know......
that reminds me of some of the forum threads.
Ahhhh, those were the days.
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Letitia CoyneFeb 05, 06:59am
Ah, an afternoon on youtube with Monty Python. Who would not be happy?
Lxx
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DolemiteFeb 05, 07:16am
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Sally HoutmanFeb 05, 07:43am
This one goes out to all the poets out there.
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Sally HoutmanFeb 05, 08:00am
"an afternoon on youtube with Monty Python. Who would not be happy?"
Well. *That* guy.
And that other guy.
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