The science of improving your brain’s creativity | Nick Skillicorn | TEDxDurhamUniversity

[@princessnada2552]

Some of the connections that my brain made right now is: Since oscillating b/w relaxing and being in the focused mode makes you more creative and come up with solutions, I assume that is why when Albert Einstein used to face a problem that he is unable to solve, he said that he would get the solution while playing the violin (while unwinding , neurons apparently are still working in the back of your mind to make connection and come up with solutions). Truly MIND BLOWING !!! Thanks for this amazing talk :)

[@lee-xy3vz]

16:32 till the end of the video is what I was looking for (hopefully it's what your looking for too if you don't wanna watch the whole video)

[@arvinmajhi5296]

Thank you!

[@ojenstoneshlem390]

Thank man😁

[@vd9315]

i typed in "how to become more creative" saw ted talks and immediately clicked it. I love their lectures

[@AnimeshSharma1977]

Thanks for the nice talk :) People often abuse the name of Einstein with the quote which goes something like "Imagination is more important than knowledge." in order to push creativity to a higher status. Glad that the speaker emphasized that a long term strategy to be more creative is to gather more knowledge because creativity is based on the existing knowledge ;)

[@dareolushina4391]

Animesh Sharma oooooooops, you got it wrong, if you want to take it in the context in which he said it then knowledge makes you uncreative, but thats not the point he was trying to make, remember the first circle he drew, he said that the mind is lazy and when you ask people to come up with ideas, the things that comes to mind is the knkwledge they already have, thats not creativity but the point is not that knowledge is anti creativity, the point is that the mind is lazy and wants to take shortcut, until you make a demand and makemsure you think of new ways and that was the third sector in the first circle he drew

[@AnimeshSharma1977]

Hey Dare, thanks for the comment :) Yes i agree that lazy thinkers often bring their knowledge to showcase their thinking which is more often regurgitating the facts rather than adding something to it, in the end their knowledge leading them to stop thinking deeply... What i got out of this video was that knowledge is essential for creativity, and since it is often easier to gain knowledge than to be creative, so if one is stuck, it is better to start gaining knowledge rather than the other way... with the obvious caveat that one is now gaining knowledge just to boost their egos ;)

[@davidgrief5289]

Better Fluid intelligence helps creativity which is not based on knowledge but the ability to solve abstract puzzles. This demishes in late 20s. Crystallised intelligence is The knowledge that we gain and the higher in fluid intelligence you are the quicker you can .

[@noahcrow8982]

I think you can find an audio clip of Einstein actually saying that

[@TheEndevour2010]

Mind has a way of coming up with solutions to a problem that you probed but not able to figure out earlier. I had a similar experience. I had this problem but was not able to figure a solution for it. Then something else came up while I’m working on something else. Seems like internally neurons made some connection between two separate concepts to come up with a solution for another previously unsolved problem. I think neurons are actively searching for a connection in the back burner and jump up when concepts combined provide a solution. Mind is truly amazing, get as much knowledge as possible and look for problems to solve. Then let mind do it’s job as a slow cooker. Solutions would be amazing for you and for the mankind.

[@harshshinde7469]

Wow this guy is a genius

[@bbaattttlleemmooddee]

This was more helpful than other creativity talks. The one by Gilbert is interesting too.

[@aansul333]

I am 2% more creative after listning this. Thanks

[@skishan1984]

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[@elliesericati2500]

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[@jakecostanza802]

well, that was unexpected

[@nano-books307]

There is a science to creativity, and creativity advances science.

[@williamjayaraj2244]

Thanks for the wonderful message on creativity

[@mpcc2022]

There are two poor presuppositions being made in reasoning that creativity is merely drilled out people by institutions, one, that the propensity to be creative doesn't correlate to personality, and , two, that creativity is a single dimensional trait like IQ. Neither of which are true. Further more, people are comparative, including children. When children are going through their educational experience they are comparing their ability to draw, paint, solve math problems in novel ways, or generate ideas to their peers and if they are not relatively close to the top performers they tend to quit, or, typically, don't aspire to some high level of performance without intervention. Even if our schools promoted creativity the number of people who identified as being creative would still be a small number, because you don't have to just be creative to be considered creative; you have to be more creative than everyone else and that's a tall order that most people are not answering.

[@brendanh8193]

You point to an interesting problem in education. Malcolm Gladwell pointed this out with his comparative analysis of retention in science degrees. He split the cohort up into 3 groups based on SAT scores. Those in the lowest third were far less likely to complete the degree, and SAT score correlated to completion rates quite well. So far, as expected. Except that this trend occurred across different institutions, and did not correlate with SAT, rather with relative SAT, that is how you compared with your peers at the institution. Harvard would have similar drop-out rates as other lower ranked colleges. But what do you see as the solution? Harvard created scholarships for more average students so it wouldn't lose so many brilliant but not relatively brilliant students. Little Athletics (an athletics program for kids) emphasises PBs (personal bests), but still looses the bulk of participants around age 12, where team sports drag participants away. Two considerations can be put forward here. A greater emphasis on metacognition is similar to an emphasis on PBs. Perhaps we could also put a greater emphasis on teamwork, including in exams, like Eric Mazur has put forward.

[@贖罪の猫ジョン]

thanks, some very important tips.

[@MohabFIsmail]

great talk

[@rameshrajputcreativechemistry]

Superb!!!

[@masum1731]

I love your idea 💡 🙌

[@h.ar.2937]

the last few minutes are dope!

[@keyzmi]

Agreed!

[@MadMarcWinnipeg]

Thankyou!!

[@stevelowe3525]

Briliant

[@hoanguyenfutu]

valuable sharing knowledge! thank you very much! :)

[@redwatch.]

Great talk.

[@cormacbyrne4768]

Well done Nick this is a great talk, Corm (Wapping)

[@Oliver-vu6su]

Did anyone find any of his sources? Very interesting talk.

[@macminista2003]

Can someone explain what he meant by improvisation training to improve creativity in the long term?

[@merthuseyindomac9134]

+macminista2003 for example playin someone else's song is not improvisation ; it is memorizing , improvisation means you are playin sth doesnt exist, it is from your mind with the melodies that you created immediately

[@macminista2003]

Thanks Mert!

[@rushilrahman9526]

I would use that razor For peeling fruits:)

[@yougotnojams.5257]

We can use it for hanging too

[@colinwiener3268]

1:06 Jordan disagrees.

[@jakecostanza802]

Colmag GOAT! Such a shame he doesn’t play anymore.

[@santanumajee6794]

very creative and asssammmm

[@santanumajee6794]

good

[@trippsmith72]

I feel bad for the guy that didn’t get his hand called on even though he had it up the longest 😂😂 12:53

[@sadhansarker9945]

What exactly is Rotogenflux Methods? How does this thing really work? I see a lot of people keep on talking about this iq course.

[@vvohvaelez9277]

16:21

[@minettekakudji374]

What is Rotogenflux Methods and how does it work? I hear a lot of people their IQ score increased over 17 points with this iq course.

[@jozefserf2024]

Nice try Yoko. No biscuit this time. You'll have to pinch George's. Again.

[@naomipercimoney5359]

i am for nuture, not nATuRE

[@philliphosking9976]

creat'd'ive....

[@hispeed52]

I disagree - there are clear correlates between personality and creativity. Creativity can be innate and the speaker seems to ignore this.

[@robbedontuesday]

Skillicorn? What is that? A fantasy name? A Skilled Unicorn? Some people are predestined by their names...

[@erichsontheimer2785]

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[@agalyailangovan]

s ds a church

[@CP-nl1uo]

Well, then I hope I can do something about my noisy neighbours

[@ideamanbob]

overall covers it... but nothing new

[@sebastiandiaconu1221]

80% of your inteligence is hereditary. kinda sucks, but still kinda cool that you have that 20% to work with.

[@chrismason5477]

The little study concurrently lock because handicap consquentially start midst a muddled garlic. tedious, careless box

[@sithukyaw9019]

Those who can't do, teach haha

[@mxb3ar886]

Can someone tell me what the “Nonu Amazing only (google it)” is? I see it everywhere and when I search it up nothing helps out.

[@abnerbeebee]

Booooooring

[@clutchcarabelli8054]

there is no left brain vs right brain creativity and everybody is comparably creative it's just how you were brought up... Yeah "Right" Okay .. Next

[@princessnada2552]

Some of the connections that my brain made right now is: Since oscillating b/w relaxing and being in the focused mode makes you more creative and come up with solutions, I assume that is why when Albert Einstein used to face a problem that he is unable to solve, he said that he would get the solution while playing the violin (while unwinding , neurons apparently are still working in the back of your mind to make connection and come up with solutions). Truly MIND BLOWING !!! Thanks for this amazing talk :)

[@frijolitoatomico3583]

Its true. And for some reason my best ideas always come out while releasing waste in the toilet.

[@tayyabhussain9995]

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