How humility, courage, and empathy help navigate the creative process: Seung Chan Lim at TEDxPSU

In this short talk, Seung Chan Lim (Slim) shares two stories from a research he conducted at both the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University on what it means to "make something," how it works as a creative process, and why it matters to our lives. The stories illustrate how humility & courage help the artist develop their empathy in relation to the "others" they interact with in the creative process.
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[@LeonisCatulus]

This talk resonated a lot with me, thank you for sharing 🙏
I always though that receiving was the same as giving, in a symbiotic and complementary relationship.
Being a teacher is being a student too, and the opposite is also right I believe.
Thx again.

[@W4ldgeist]

Teaching someone is a great way to deepen your own knowledge and understanding of the topic. Even in such seemingly unemotional, engineering fields as programming, you often understand your own code better if you explain it to someone else.
Every programmer has had the experience of being stuck. Then one starts explaining the problem to a fellow colleague - and sometimes that colleague is not even a coder - and immediately the problem becomes clear.
That happens simply because you try to explain your own train of thought as clear as possible to someone else, your empathizing with the other and your perceived understanding he has of your work, enabling you to really understand what you are doing in a much deeper way, solving the problem without even actively thinking about it while explaining. You are freeing yourself of a boxed in view, your own limited horizon.

[@fk9534]

I totally agree: "At the heart of all creative processes is empathy"

[@namratauchil2]

Loved this video. Just so beautifully put. I was in tears during the play bit. It was just lovely.

[@nighttrain7404]

Admitting humblebrag is the first step to real humility

[@LloydieP]

Awesome.

[@nylaelam9934]

Jesus Loves You❤

[@GeorgePenton-np9rh]

How can a person be humble and courageous at the same time? And a person who is constantly reminding himself of what a lowly little nobody he is, how is he going to have time to have much empathy for anyone else?

[@dinglee9870]

thanks for sharing;)

[@ChowMeinWarrior]

Nice

[@LiznCaro]

So good. God bless.

[@jordiheaven7751]

Beautiful God bless you

[@LloydieP]

Awesome.

[@samwallaceart288]

5:51 best director ever.