The best 30 minutes I’ve spent in a while.

Reposting this John Cleese lecture that Merlin posted because some assholes had it taken down off Vimeo. (I was on the road, so I didn’t grab the hi-res copy, but I did download this YouTube version, so…) I watched it twice last week — both times before I was scheduled to give a talk.

Creativity is not a talent, it is a way of operating.

Before, I’d only seen this lecture of his, which I quoted in STEAL: “We don’t know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we don’t get them from our laptops.”

  1. absurdlakefront reblogged this from flashandfootle and added:
    Reblogging so I remember to watch later.
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    John Cleese is brilliant. In this talk on creativity he lays out a structured way to get good ideas before you switch...
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    I’ve been struggling to explain the “quiet time” creative concept to people forever.. I shall direct them here.
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