Evelyn Glennie on How to Truly Listen
This is what it looks like when an incredible musician teaches the world how to listen, despite being deaf. Sidenote: a friend told me about this TEDtalk because we were …
Scott Belsky’s “Making Ideas Happen”
Artists have built for themselves, or had built for them, this stereotype of absent-minded creative abandon. Whether it’s the writer who forgets to eat, drink, or sleep while coming across …
Vik Muniz’s Wasteland
Whenever I tell people what I want to do with my life, what I’m studying, they always end up asking, “what is community art?” This is a hard question to …
The Piano Guys
I’ve been playing classical music since first grade and for the first eight years I hated it. My mother, who was usually not a particularly strict parent, put her foot …
Tina Seelig’s inGenius
The thing about inspiration is that it can come from anywhere. Earlier this year I was just beginning the idea of making some sort of creativity program. I was thinking …
Paul Arden’s “It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be”
Good books are medicine to a creative mind. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to just drone out in front of TV but instead pick up a …
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Elizabeth Gilbert on Creative Genius
I have shared this TED talk with so many people. When I first watched it I had one of those moments where I realized that someone had already said exactly …