how to be creative

How To Be Creative

| Off Book | PBS Digital Studios

it’s a messy affair – but the notion that it’s coming from nowhere – false..

expand your capacity for uncertainty

spiral of excitement and despair, allow yourself the despair because it leads to new things.

stages:

preparation

incubation – let it go – mind wandering away from task

illumination – insight – a colliding

verification – craft message so best perceived by people

can’t isolate.. it’s all together..

members of a collaborative group make up a single meta-artist.. it’s the conversations that are really the results of additional ideas, your ideas are not you, criticisms are not criticisms of you.. not married to ideas – able to let go.

difficult to be creative w/o trust

such a beautiful way to connect with other human beings.. to make something together

copy: simple mimicry – that’s how we learn

transform: innovate on top of a base/platform that already exists

combine: take existing ideas that nobody thought of putting together

getting some place beyond what you thought was possible..