Just a random assortment of stuff I find inspiring. Take a peek at my odd little spice rack. Enjoy!
TED Talks
John Bohannon: Dance vs. powerpoint, a modest proposal
Tim Brown: Tales of creativity and play
Morten Friis-Olivarius: Stimulating the creative brain
Tim Harford: A powerful way to unleash Your natural creativity
William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind
Po-Shen Lo: How to be a creative thinker
Saamra Mekuria-Grillo: Yes, you can be an entrepreneur too
Tina Seelig: A crash course in creativity
Emily Pilloton-Lam: What if women built the world they want to see?
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Yara Shahidi: Let curiosity lead
Other videos
Anna Abraham on the neuroscience of the creative brain | Closer to Truth chats
Giovanni Aloi, I’m not an artist
Ken Burns, Jazz. (Especially check out the first episode, “Gumbo,” for a great taste of the emergence of jazz from diverse cultural origins)
Josh Johnson on comedy and mental health in the age of social media (The Big Interview, WIRED)
Vanessa Hill (BrainCraft), The neuroscience of creativity(short, with nifty animations)
Steven Kotler Big Think interviews:
How to enter flow state on command and
The science of effortlessness
Beau Lotto: The neuroscience of creativity, perception, and confirmation bias
Wynton Marsalis on collective creativity
Questlove, Quest for Craft
Samuel Suresh, What no one told you about creativity
Podcasts
Hidden Brain:
The jealous curator: Art for your ear
Science Friday: The Leap
- A scientist’s quest to see every organism on Earth
- Be bold or just don’t do it
- Everything else is boring
Other Links
Design Council UK Double Diamond
Systems are creative: On emergence and creativity
