austinkleon:

merlin:

John Cleese – “A Lecture on Creativity”

danforth:

John Cleese lectures on the topic of creativity.

Per Back to Work #62: Cultural Molasses.

Seriously: this wonderful video has had a huge impact on how I think about creativity. For years.

Unfortunately, the copy I’ve had and repeatedly enjoyed “fell off the back of a truck,” so I had no way to share it.

Now, (via danforth), I can finally share and highly recommend it.

And, I really, really do encourage you to watch. Really. All the way through. It’s just terrific.

OMG this lecture. Everybody go home. I’d only seen this one, which I quoted in STEAL: “We don’t know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we don’t get them from our laptops.”