John Cleese creativity

John Cleese talks about being creative in this behavioural economics Nudgefest 2021 talk

[@user-dk9pu7tk4v]

I love the unconscious creativity of the subtitles..."My Brian (brain) was working on it while I was asleep" ....

[@DenkyManner]

"I should have bought the cat's present" 😂

[@d.k.1394]

Great

[@niguel4438]

John Lennon understood this I think about lyrics. If they wouldn’t come he was happy to insert say the words ‘sausage roll’ if they scanned the music in the knowledge that eventually the best words will come.

[@kjsmarquis]

To paraphrase a very, very smart man, the moment a good idea, an accurate and clear insight into a situation is made, and a solution proposed that is genius. I.e. very few people do it. Is not when someone says or many say, “Eureka”! It’s when everyone is silent, And someone peeps, “” that’s odd.”… And the idiot, who is always present in any situation, will try to fill the space of the silence with an insinuation or demand that everyone should just get on with it. It doesn’t make sense and that we should just go back to what we were doing i.e. Failure and death.

[@Charmainejay]

Brilliant

[@annietiquity2197]

I am big fan of JC and agree with all that he says and observes in this piece. The word running through this but not said is "serendipity" (I think - I might have missed it? I will listen again) - anyway I am staggered by the low number of views for this masterclass. Did I miss the news that JC has been de-platformed in social media and declared a non-person by the usual twitter cancel mobs as a protest about his historic abuse of persons who don't walk sensibly?

[@bobblues1158]

Well put! I am a musician and figured this out when i was 16 and i am 77 now.

[@perpardorf1040]

When the unconscious becomes conscious, it happens quite unconsciously.❤️

[@mamborickyclassicalmusicac4733]

Wonderful

[@markkadela]

Somewhat of a repeat but, does it ever hit a spot! 1000% agree!

[@geoffeverist4264]

Love this , its fantastic !!!. But firstly i need to believe in me so i can believe in creativity , i love my farm that i believes in me, then this created my creativity, please keep these videos coming

[@SeeBird686]

Thanks so much John, after listening to you talk i now have amazing peace and creativity. I tried the method you described of Edison staying in the sleep/waking moment using the ball bearings dropping on the floor. This has been spectacularly effective. The balls indeed woke me when they fell, and on discovering my cellphone had gently slipped off the bed onto the floor and the ball bearings had completely destroyed it`s function i believe i am now free. Thank you again, to be fair i was about to go down to the local wharf and throw the Bastard thing out to sea anyway. Happiness is simple silence!

[@annietiquity2197]

Classic :-)

[@GhANeC]

8:48 the problem is that, way too often and sadly in most family, educational or social environments in this world, even children who naturally display this attribute or, perhaps more valuably, the willingness for it and to nurture it, start to have it gradually and continuously eroded and devalued by others. And if by miracle it still survives in some struggling form to adulthood, unless life has been otherwise exceptionally privileged, or fortunate, or kind to said children, they will need, alone, to trudge through, survive, and often submit to, this world. And this world just as often and sadly sees to, harshly, that that attribute is finished being devalued and beaten down.

[@TauvicRitter]

Churches and graveyards are great places for creative thinking.

[@davidandersen9177]

Interesting, I rarely settle on an aspect of my carving on a sculpture unless it feels right.

[@Charmainejay]

It's the same for me too 👍

[@GhANeC]

Time… …isn’t that a priceless commodity that for that same reason is constantly chipped away and stolen away by the world as much as it is allowed or not even allowed to do so.

[@ketchup5344]

What have i stumbled across here ? How delightful. Bedtime shall now be even later. 🌈 ps all this is great but -and i dont care how corny this sounds-i wouldnt say no to a nice bit of silly walking at the end of this. That would help my creativity no end.

[@d.k.1394]

We are living in the; Matrix

[@rodneymarsden3003]

In High School, students for me were the killers of learning and not teachers. They were also the destroyers of creativity. I imagine that many of those terrible kids went on to become shop owners and businessmen. 1984 has been my own inspiration. Right now, with WOK, we are headed for Big Brother and someone should write about that while we are still allowed to do so. I write about that in sf. I remembered the disruptors of lessons were sometimes clever and I suppose intelligent in their own way. But they didn't make anything, they just destroyed. WOK is also about destruction as is political correctness. I suppose I do still have a purpose as do you. I think stories need to be kicked around for a while until they have the shape you think will work then they go to to an editor. I have often used super logic to create absurdism. I know this is what you have done and no doubt continue to do. Take a logical concept and put it in a world not very logical such as own own. What happens? You have the dead parrot sketch. The logic is the nature of the parrot. The non-acceptance of the nature of the parrot is where the humour and the conflict lies. We KNOW the parrot is dead and yet the fantasy is that it is still alive. My thoughts at any rate. Also the lumberjack song starts with logic (this is how a lumberjack should be) and quickly turns into something else and so becomes fun. If I am going to write comedy, I love to start with super logic. This is it. This is how it is and how it should be. No argument to the contrary accepted! Punching holes in that seems to me something you do very well. Monty send ups of religion I love. You never know when the Spanish Inquisition will turn up! I feel diminished when history is purposely told wrong, not by accident, but on purpose. If done for laughs, I am fine but done seriously, not happy. But maybe that's just me. My friend Lyn McConchie, New Zealand novelists, lives on a farm and her discoveries there have gone into her Sherlock Holmes tales. For example, she discovered that rats like shiny objects and can be collectors. A rodent with an eye for beauty? Apparently it can happen and did happen on her farm.

[@hud86]

I miss the silent generation: Creativity that gave us most modern conveniences, a strong work ethic and a sense of community. Their kids ruined it with self indulgence and lack of responsibility...

[@JamesMulvale]

kids only do what grown ups tell them