{"id":747,"date":"2012-11-11T17:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T17:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sparktoro.com\/blog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2012-11-11T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T17:58:24","slug":"where-does-creativity-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparktoro.com\/blog\/where-does-creativity-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Does Creativity Come From?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love discovering that long-held wisdom or cultural beliefs are mythology. Ideas are so often what hold people back from achieving greater potential &#8211; and freedom from the prison of those ideas can create revolutions that make us all better, stronger, and wiser.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend I watched some videos on the site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everythingisaremix.info\">Everything Is A Remix<\/a> that changed my preconceptions about what it means to be creative, what an inventor is, and how brilliant new ideas come to be. Much like Simon Sinek&#8217;s talk on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html\">Getting to Why<\/a>, this video has the potential to be a touchstone for many of us who operate in the fields of marketing and technology.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" align=\"center\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Some of my big takeaways after watching include:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What we currently think of as &#8220;original&#8221; may not even exist.<\/li>\n<li>Feeling guilt for creating derivatives from the works of others is foolish.<\/li>\n<li>Studying the works of others may be a great path to creativity.<\/li>\n<li>I need to experiment with mashing things up more.<\/li>\n<li>Viewing derivatives next to their sources has the weird, undeserved effect of tarnishing their artistic contribution. That&#8217;s probably a big part of what needs to change in my mind to get to a place of acceptance and understanding about how creativity happens.<\/li>\n<li>No matter what we create, we need to remember that the vast majority of the credit almost always belongs to those who created before us &#8211; internalizing that should make humility more achievable too.<\/li>\n<li>Steve Jobs was a total asshole of a hypocrite (in addition to being <a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/29\/the-mystery-of-steve-jobss-public-giving\/\">the least philanthropic person<\/a> of his wealth class in a generation), and I hope fewer entrepreneurs consider him a role model over time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have time, their video on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everythingisaremix.info\/everything-is-a-remix-part-3\/\">Elements of Creativity<\/a> is also worth a viewing. It traces back the creation of the personal computer and the graphical user interface to its many, many roots.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/25380454?js_api=1&amp;js_swf_id=ymzaoifyot797315361352579731536\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Our legal system and capitalist culture today seem trapped by a mythology of creativity&#8217;s source. Here&#8217;s to hoping that we can break through those barriers, even if it&#8217;s only a little at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love discovering that long-held wisdom or cultural beliefs are mythology. Ideas are so often what hold people back from achieving greater potential &#8211; and freedom from the prison of those ideas can create revolutions that make us all better, stronger, and wiser. 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