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This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award. For more information on Sir Ken’s work visit: http://www.sirkenrobinson.com

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In India, there is an ancient saying: “Better to fail in your own destiny then succeed in someone else’s.” If your chosen path is a safe bet, then it’s not your real ambition. You can aim higher than that.

Mark McGuinness (via nicklovelyday)

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We don’t create, we discover. 

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John Cleese on Creativity

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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

Ray Bradbury (via wordquote)

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Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache of not being able to find the answer. When we tell one another stories about creativity, we tend to leave out this phase of the creative process. We neglect to mention those days when we wanted to quit, when we believed that our problems were impossible to solve. Instead, we skip straight to the breakthroughs. The danger of telling this narrative is that the feeling of frustration – the act of being stumped – is an essential part of the creative process. Before we can find the answer – before we probably even know the question – we must be immersed in disappointment, convinced that a solution is beyond our reach. It’s often only at this point, after we’ve stopped searching for the answer, that the answer arrives. All of a sudden, the answer to the problem that seemed so daunting becomes incredibly obvious.

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Looking for the last piece of the puzzle? Try these 7 research-based techniques for increasing creativity.

Everyone is creative: we can all innovate given time, freedom, autonomy, experience to draw on, perhaps a role model to emulate and the motivation to get on with it.

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We do not need a bad imitation of another artist that has come before us. No. We need originals. We need originals desperately, and the only way that will happen is if the business fosters and encourages individuality. We want it, we crave it, and we need it. But the aspiring artists of today also have a responsibility to learn about themselves, to strongly address why they need to perform and what they have to say.

Joyce DiDonato (via thejourney-workofthestars)

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There can be an intense egoism in following everyone else. People are in a HURRY to magnify themselves by IMITATING what is popular, and too lazy to think of anything better. Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want QUICK SUCCESS and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be TRUE TO THEMSELVES. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity.

Thomas Merton

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Cover bands don't change the world.

Todd Henry - Accidental Creative

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Todd Henry - Creativity Under Pressure

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Creativity is seeing common things in uncommon ways.

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Out of all the creative techniques that you will come across, the one that I found most powerful is the ability to connect two unconnected ideas.

Peter Fisk - Creative Genuis

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Ira Glass- On Being Creative

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John Jay on Creativity - Wieden+Kennedy Creative Director