Ted Talk- Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity

"Eat, Pray, Love" Author Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.


She suggest the possibility that the `itness' of a creative persons work actually comes from outside the person - unexplained in modern thought- but explainable in ideas from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome- when people believed that creativity came from `diamons' or `genius'.

Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
TED Conferences
20 min 1 sec - Jul 5, 2006

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than ... all » undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize -- much less cultivate -- the talents of many brilliant people. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online. A typical review: "If you have not yet seen Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk, please stop whatever you're doing and watch it now.