1. Continuous practice: try to challenge yourself and come up with completely random words/ideas. 2. Prime your sleep: use your sleep to try to be more creative. In dreams you don't have any rules so before sleeping, think about the idea you want new thoughts about in your dream and when you wake up, take notes. 3. Randomeness: make any random piece of informations you get, useful for creative ideas. How can you use that information.
I’ve noticed that even artists, after a while their creativity becomes somewhat stagnant. Yet, we just refer to their music, movies or painting as their “style”. As a digital artist myself, I have to make a conscious effort not to become too lazy and predictable in my work, but constantly push my comfort-zone by thinking outside of the box.
I advise people here to watch the whole talk before reading the comments who for some reason the people in them volunteered to summarize the talk and losing the many ideas and information in it
I use Wikipedia to compile a list of words/phrases that are relevant to whatever I'm working on, then I put them into an online cut-up machine similar to William Burroughs' technique. It spits back a paragraph of mixed up words, mostly all jargon, but a lot of the time they inspire new connections I hadn't thought of before, which I can then run with however I wish. It becomes quite addictive to experiment with disparate source topics.
0:22: 💡 Creativity is a valuable skill that is essential for future success in various fields. 4:02: 🧠 Creativity is the key to success in any aspect of life, not just art. 8:03: 🧠 Creativity decreases as we grow up due to associative limitations and increased expertise in a domain. 11:48: 💡 Using sleep as a creative technique and a solution for creative problems. 15:20: ✨ The video discusses three techniques to enhance creativity: practicing creativity while doing everyday tasks, using randomness to generate new ideas, and dreaming about problems to gain fresh perspectives. Recap by Tammy AI
Great talk. I've used the sleep one for years with good results, not all the time but often. Glad to see recognition that creativity is SO important and essential in all aspects of life/work. I was ridiculed as a child and it wasn't till I was around 40 yrs I realised I was very creative ... just not in the type of art my teacher had laughed at.
Watching this video made me more creative for sure, thank you for sharing! Can't believe I could enjoy watching TED talks this much - so many great life tips are here.
1. Try to challenge yourself to find something is out of box 2. Prime your sleep to charge you mind to boost your mind 3. How can you use the information for creactivity
The first word i think of when I'm standing there with my toothbrush trying to come up with 3 random words seems to always be "potato".. so I decided to make it 4 and simply ignore the first one.
omng! I loved the nine dot solutions by kids! I would never never never have thought of them! It reminds me of the physics teacher that put this question on a test: given a barometer, find the height of the school building. Of course, the students knew that air pressure (measured by the barometer) gets lower as you go higher. They said to measure the pressure at ground level and then on the roof. Find the difference and use a math equation (given in books) to get the height. But here are CREATIVE- and funny - answers: 1. Find the school maintenance guy and offer to trade him the barometer if he tells you the height of the building. 2. Tie a string to the barometer, stand on the roof, lower the barometer to the ground. Then measure the string. 3. Drop the barometer from the roof and time its fall till it smashes to the ground. An equation gives distance. Can you think of out of the box answers?
Ha.. love those answers.. sorry Nate.. I can't think of anymore besides what those kids saw. Nate, your example of the different answer from kids, highlights that by asking many people about the problem on hand is also a good way to problem solve/think creatively.
this video was so helpful and it made me open minded and i learned that creativity doesn’t have any limits go as far and push yourself so don’t try to limit what you can do or think you cannot do it because you can !
Awesome talk Dr. Onarheim Hope this helps me to open up my creativity which is hidden deep inside the knowledge and lot of noisy data with too many communication channels.
Interesting! The first book to take readers inside the experience of creative inspiration hits bookstores tomorrow (3/6/2018). It's called, "Deep Creativity: Inside the Creative Mystery," and is the culmination of a 30-year exploration into the heart of creative inspiration. It stresses the idea that creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
Thanks for the recommendation. Sounds like a good book. I like how you mentioned that creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
Left and right Brain activities helps a great deal to help in enhancing both sides of brain. For eg: Using left hand which is less dominant to do some work enhances the right brain which increases the person’s creativity and motor skill. Left and Right brain activities are a powerful tool to practice. Thanks for a such great talk! TedX
Hey guys if you guys want to take it a step further with the random words once you're good at it .You create a three word link of random words including the first association word and once you have 3 random words create an image in you're head or a scene combining and using all three random words. If you want to go further and beyond then when you see the images in you're head and it seems generic or common force yourself to make it completely random by making more exaggerated or goofy looking even making look creepy this a pro tip by a drawing artist
Brilliant. Can't wait to see more of your research! If I was to make a single observation, I would offer that this is vital research to the solution of some very protracted problems we are having as a species. If I was to make a second one, I'd say be careful using the word "destroy" (14:25-ish). Perhaps a better word is "inhibit"? It seems trivial but the defeating influential potency of the word "destroy" may not be (it would seem) what you want to affirm in someone. Such an exciting talk. Sorry this got by me for 6 years!
Wow.. I can attest that I have tried only the 3rd idea (Wikipedia Random Articles) and it does work!!! Thank you so much. Is it working for other people?
This is what I heard about being creative: combine two old ideas to make a new one. The mobile phone plus computer for a smart phone is an example. OK, I realise a smart phone is more than that these days.
Strange that age makes us less creative. Strange too that creativity is looked down upon. Many of those things are really amazing. Why will someone supress it?
"Try to think of random words when u brush your teeth" i didn't understand it clearly can anyone brief it to me . i would be very thankful to your precious time.
So this is late but I'll answer anyways. His advice is to come up with random *unrelated* words quickly. Usually when trying to come up with random words they will have some connection (to the previous word or your surrounding). E.g. Toothbrush, Teeth, Mouth, Eat, Food, Pizza...... Instead you should try to come up with something like this: Toothbrush, Tire, Australia, Table, Rain, Children, Glass.....
Mr0strich I get that like say for instance “Tire”and “pillow” but how does that help creativity? Are you supposed to find a reason why these things are related afterword or? I’m very confused and I would be very thankful if you explained:)
me da risa porque todos repiten lo mismos y todos dicen lo mismo, leen los mismos libros y parece q saben, pero son lo mismo todos. Es increible estas charlas
@@starstruck8862 thanks, im trying to make an effort into being more creative. Its pretty ironic how school makes people more unintelligent and less creative.
Hi Joyce, yeah I'm mumbling a bit there.. The first tool: Train your brain to make 'random associations', by challenging yourself to produce a chain of words where you quickly come up with a list of words - where every word has nothing to do with the previous word. I do this every night while brushing my teeth, but you can do this whenever you have a spare minute! Happy cognitive training :)
A math teacher would tell you a line passes infinitely both ways through your bloody dots. Why most people think Mathematics doesn't require creativity is beyond me.
Chocolatier Since most people don't understand Math and aren't highly creative, so it's understandable, but not obvious. To add, creative people look further and see more than the average person, so it's more than understandable to me that most people would be concerned with the supposed obvious, because most people aren't creative.
guys who ever watching these videos,inspirational,motivational plz stop annd be urself.cause u know guys we r liveing in a era that has no meanig on this.try to make urself,stay trong,don't take a step bck if needed most then take bck.cause u know what by listeaning them u can't get higher cause i'm trying this since 3yrs and still nothing.i just want u to say who ever reading my cmnt now just find urself in u.cause u r lossing urself thats why u came here to get some inspiration.just find urself wt u r,why u r here in this planet,wty u need to do,ask random questions ur self.then the last question always came that wt r u doing now? this the question just find the answer or try hard to get the answer.
When he said three random words I heard him say “three random birds” and proceeded to list off three birds and was wondering why he said bicycle not 15 seconds later
The three tools:
1. Continous practise
2. Priming dreams
3. Use randomness to solve current problems
1. Continuous practice: try to challenge yourself and come up with completely random words/ideas.
2. Prime your sleep: use your sleep to try to be more creative. In dreams you don't have any rules so before sleeping, think about the idea you want new thoughts about in your dream and when you wake up, take notes.
3. Randomeness: make any random piece of informations you get, useful for creative ideas. How can you use that information.
He starts talking about the tools at 11:20.
uter thanks
Oh wow
Thanks a lot man!
Thank you friend
Thx!! saved me time
Best tips ever
😏
Wtf steezy???
@@Jester317 ik right
haha😜You are here
Steezy you should post
Key to being creative
There are no rules
Anything is possible
Human potential is limitless
Never a truer word said! Especially there are no rules.
I’ve noticed that even artists, after a while their creativity becomes somewhat stagnant. Yet, we just refer to their music, movies or painting as their “style”. As a digital artist myself, I have to make a conscious effort not to become too lazy and predictable in my work, but constantly push my comfort-zone by thinking outside of the box.
I advise people here to watch the whole talk before reading the comments who for some reason the people in them volunteered to summarize the talk and losing the many ideas and information in it
Speak for yourself, everybody is different
Don Givani I am talking to the different :)
yes I don't know why people do that...summarise the entire thing into 3-4 lines....
I use Wikipedia to compile a list of words/phrases that are relevant to whatever I'm working on, then I put them into an online cut-up machine similar to William Burroughs' technique. It spits back a paragraph of mixed up words, mostly all jargon, but a lot of the time they inspire new connections I hadn't thought of before, which I can then run with however I wish.
It becomes quite addictive to experiment with disparate source topics.
Ooh i love this idea! Thanks!
0:22: 💡 Creativity is a valuable skill that is essential for future success in various fields.
4:02: 🧠 Creativity is the key to success in any aspect of life, not just art.
8:03: 🧠 Creativity decreases as we grow up due to associative limitations and increased expertise in a domain.
11:48: 💡 Using sleep as a creative technique and a solution for creative problems.
15:20: ✨ The video discusses three techniques to enhance creativity: practicing creativity while doing everyday tasks, using randomness to generate new ideas, and dreaming about problems to gain fresh perspectives.
Recap by Tammy AI
Summary :
“We put rules into there, that are not there” . That’s why we are not creative.
Tahseen Mik it reminds me of the joker in The Dark Knight
Great talk. I've used the sleep one for years with good results, not all the time but often. Glad to see recognition that creativity is SO important and essential in all aspects of life/work. I was ridiculed as a child and it wasn't till I was around 40 yrs I realised I was very creative ... just not in the type of art my teacher had laughed at.
Watching this video made me more creative for sure, thank you for sharing! Can't believe I could enjoy watching TED talks this much - so many great life tips are here.
I like this talk. I like the way he run his talk, very clear and transparent to get his points.
1. Try to challenge yourself to find something is out of box
2. Prime your sleep to charge you mind to boost your mind
3. How can you use the information for creactivity
Love the “Dot Puzzle Solutions” It’s amazing how after a good nights sleep can generate creative ideas. Thx for this Ted Talk
his power point is out of the box
The first word i think of when I'm standing there with my toothbrush trying to come up with 3 random words seems to always be "potato".. so I decided to make it 4 and simply ignore the first one.
bro same omg
my first three words were potatoes, mashed, and sleeves xD
Mine were
Meteor, buttcrack, and Canada.
for me it's tomato so, close enough
This is for people who have never thought about creativity. It's what you do before 101.
omng! I loved the nine dot solutions by kids! I would never never never have thought of them!
It reminds me of the physics teacher that put this question on a test: given a barometer, find the height of the school building. Of course, the students knew that air pressure (measured by the barometer) gets lower as you go higher. They said to measure the pressure at ground level and then on the roof. Find the difference and use a math equation (given in books) to get the height. But here are CREATIVE- and funny - answers:
1. Find the school maintenance guy and offer to trade him the barometer if he tells you the height of the building.
2. Tie a string to the barometer, stand on the roof, lower the barometer to the ground. Then measure the string.
3. Drop the barometer from the roof and time its fall till it smashes to the ground. An equation gives distance.
Can you think of out of the box answers?
Ha.. love those answers.. sorry Nate.. I can't think of anymore besides what those kids saw. Nate, your example of the different answer from kids, highlights that by asking many people about the problem on hand is also a good way to problem solve/think creatively.
Brilliant! I'm stealing that.
This is too too good. Thanks for sharing
this video was so helpful and it made me open minded and i learned that creativity doesn’t have any limits go as far and push yourself so don’t try to limit what you can do or think you cannot do it because you can !
These TED talks are starting to resemble the guest speakers we had to listen to in high school.
Awesome talk Dr. Onarheim
Hope this helps me to open up my creativity which is hidden deep inside the knowledge and lot of noisy data with too many communication channels.
Nice talk! I like that the 3 tools are so simple that anyone could use them :) He is a good teacher
Interesting! The first book to take readers inside the experience of creative inspiration hits bookstores tomorrow (3/6/2018). It's called, "Deep Creativity: Inside the Creative Mystery," and is the culmination of a 30-year exploration into the heart of creative inspiration. It stresses the idea that creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
Thanks for the recommendation. Sounds like a good book. I like how you mentioned that creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
I do love TED
Great Thកnks
Really Really Interesting talk...fortunately sleeping technique to solve problem I have used and it really helps to solve...!!!
I'm with Marianne, can you give us an example of how you solved a problem with the sleeping technique? Would love to hear it.
A person can control their dreams. Yes, problems do get solved ask or write one question before you sleep etc etc
Balder Oneheim, insight detail instructions for the mind not to be lazy.
Left and right Brain activities helps a great deal to help in enhancing both sides of brain.
For eg: Using left hand which is less dominant to do some work enhances the right brain which increases the person’s creativity and motor skill.
Left and Right brain activities are a powerful tool to practice.
Thanks for a such great talk! TedX
I sometimes mis-hear people's random utterances and trying to reconcile or make sense of them can be quite a poetic exercise.
Hey guys if you guys want to take it a step further with the random words once you're good at it .You create a three word link of random words including the first association word and once you have 3 random words create an image in you're head or a scene combining and using all three random words.
If you want to go further and beyond then when you see the images in you're head and it seems generic or common force yourself to make it completely random by making more exaggerated or goofy looking even making look creepy this a pro tip by a drawing artist
Thank you for sharing
Great talk. Really great takeaways. I liked the whole thing. Don’t think a summary would have as much impact.
Thank you for sharing these valuable tips💡
it was extremely helpful,seriously you are the first one that really brings out great new tips on that topic!! Respect bro ,
Thank you 👏👏👏👍
Brilliant. Can't wait to see more of your research! If I was to make a single observation, I would offer that this is vital research to the solution of some very protracted problems we are having as a species. If I was to make a second one, I'd say be careful using the word "destroy" (14:25-ish). Perhaps a better word is "inhibit"? It seems trivial but the defeating influential potency of the word "destroy" may not be (it would seem) what you want to affirm in someone. Such an exciting talk. Sorry this got by me for 6 years!
Excellent lecture👌
Usefull information
It was really good for me
Thanks
Damn good talk. so concise, to the point. extremely helpful and encouraging.
Wow.. I can attest that I have tried only the 3rd idea (Wikipedia Random Articles) and it does work!!! Thank you so much. Is it working for other people?
Great Talk and great presentation!
14:43 I was playing Tetris as I heard this.
For all who are interested, my 40 line sprint time is 40 seconds
Excellent speach
Thanks so much
we lose our creativity with age/specialization because of materialistic reductionist training of industrial culture
Awesome talk!
Anybody besides me who tried to sleep with a puzzle and dreamt something totally irrelevant?
Raja Mandal lmao.
you guys sleep?
I have dreams about me marrying my teachers
@@emilyl3952 😭
this is honestly one of the most random things i ever came across
Thanks so much, I also use my surbodinates to do the thinking.
you are really amazing speaker adeachs
This is what I heard about being creative: combine two old ideas to make a new one. The mobile phone plus computer for a smart phone is an example. OK, I realise a smart phone is more than that these days.
Not really, it's kinda less than that actually.
Thank u all very much
Hardly recall the memory of dreams..
Very interesting. Great advices
Why do we only try one?
I'll remember these points for next time!
thank you for making this
whooooa that was life changing
Strange that age makes us less creative. Strange too that creativity is looked down upon. Many of those things are really amazing. Why will someone supress it?
"Try to think of random words when u brush your teeth" i didn't understand it clearly can anyone brief it to me .
i would be very thankful to your precious time.
So this is late but I'll answer anyways.
His advice is to come up with random *unrelated* words quickly.
Usually when trying to come up with random words they will have some connection (to the previous word or your surrounding).
E.g. Toothbrush, Teeth, Mouth, Eat, Food, Pizza......
Instead you should try to come up with something like this: Toothbrush, Tire, Australia, Table, Rain, Children, Glass.....
Mr0strich I get that like say for instance “Tire”and “pillow” but how does that help creativity? Are you supposed to find a reason why these things are related afterword or? I’m very confused and I would be very thankful if you explained:)
The cameraman should change not only the angles, but also profession. Great speech tho!
Thank you, that was great.
me da risa porque todos repiten lo mismos y todos dicen lo mismo, leen los mismos libros y parece q saben, pero son lo mismo todos. Es increible estas charlas
very informative talks,,,thank you!for all of them!synchronicity!!!
Love you Rory 🤓
awesome speech
Great man great thnx very much
Loved it!!
School has killed my creativity, the fact that I have to be here is just so sad
I can relate. Ever since returning I lost all the artistic and imaginative traits I once had besides drawing. I do hope you get it back
@@starstruck8862 thanks, im trying to make an effort into being more creative. Its pretty ironic how school makes people more unintelligent and less creative.
@@SalmanM190 agreed. If anything they should be focusing on strengthening creativity and imaginative traits for it's what's you somewhere in life.
Damn, I thought I was hot shit for doing it in 3 and then I kept watching the vid.
Can someone explain, how random words improve your creativity!
Can someone give him a bottle of water please?
hahahaa not oneee speak administrator to notice this
Peers, i cant understand the first tool, brush with random word? What did he say?
Hi Joyce, yeah I'm mumbling a bit there.. The first tool: Train your brain to make 'random associations', by challenging yourself to produce a chain of words where you quickly come up with a list of words - where every word has nothing to do with the previous word. I do this every night while brushing my teeth, but you can do this whenever you have a spare minute! Happy cognitive training :)
A math teacher would tell you a line passes infinitely both ways through your bloody dots. Why most people think Mathematics doesn't require creativity is beyond me.
Since it is almost never used in any creative area in most people's lives? Pretty obvious.
Chocolatier Since most people don't understand Math and aren't highly creative, so it's understandable, but not obvious. To add, creative people look further and see more than the average person, so it's more than understandable to me that most people would be concerned with the supposed obvious, because most people aren't creative.
Great talk T.Y.
awesome vid
sa
guys who ever watching these videos,inspirational,motivational plz stop annd be urself.cause u know guys we r liveing in a era that has no meanig on this.try to make urself,stay trong,don't take a step bck if needed most then take bck.cause u know what by listeaning them u can't get higher cause i'm trying this since 3yrs and still nothing.i just want u to say who ever reading my cmnt now just find urself in u.cause u r lossing urself thats why u came here to get some inspiration.just find urself wt u r,why u r here in this planet,wty u need to do,ask random questions ur self.then the last question always came that wt r u doing now? this the question just find the answer or try hard to get the answer.
Hip hop artist are creative,I like that.
whaatt?!
I hope RUclips on PC updates it's format just like on phone. Where you can see the video while commenting. Coz boy this sucks.
I'm literally doing this right now lol I'm using an extension on google chrome called "Mini Y".
How about sudoku
Great Vid!
There has got to be a link as to why potato is such a common random word when watching this video, it happened to me too
Classic example of random words (stream of consciousness) are the lyrics of the song “The Waters of March”.
brilliant!!!
awesome !
Interesting!
that's how you "sleep on a decision"
Love this
SOmeone please explain to me, how you mention Putin as an example of your goal (creativity) WITHOUT getting political?
Being random! Thank you
if i think about the question i try to solve before sleep, i simply cannot fall asleep -.-
same hahahaha
Aaah! Finally Pewdipie gave a TED Talk!
LMAOOO love you
soooO handsome this Guy.. 😍like pwedepie,..💖
Green is not a creative colour
Listen to the voices in your brain
The Alchemist Which green ?
Green? Colours cannot be creative ;)
Depends on what nuance of green it is...
Well got us there. People can be creative. But the green colour can be part of a creative composition or a creative element itself.
Great
great..
When he said three random words I heard him say “three random birds” and proceeded to list off three birds and was wondering why he said bicycle not 15 seconds later
In the thumbnail he looked just like a bearded PewdiePie
hey wait a second ! i guessed Car tire too ?! now is there any science behind this that can give an explanation?!
impressive
I stopped listening when he set Putin as an example of a leader... Couldn’t get passed it.
same :)
Is anyone else bothered that he didn't stay in the red circles?
Thinking outside the box (circles, in this case)
Ha.. yeah I noticed it too.