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Ira Glass on storytelling and harnessing creativity.

Illustrated by David Shiyang Liu.

A really great excerpt from Current TV’s interview with Ira Glass on the building blocks of storytelling. Watch the full interview here: [PART 1] [PART 2] [PART3] [PART 4]

The entire interview is brilliant, but these 2 minutes are the ones I keep coming back to.

“This is the best time in history to be a creative person, because all you need is an idea and a lot of hard work. You don’t have to go impress one person who is a gatekeeper; you just have to be awesome in your own way, and get your creation in front of an audience. The old media Empire doesn’t know how to adapt to this, which is one of the reasons I believe they are trying to pass laws to crush the rebels, instead of adapting to make the revolution unnecessary.”

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Amen!

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This video of John Cleese discussing the structure of being creative is pure gold!

Watch/Listen to the talk in its entirety, below are some highlights.

Have a place where you will be uninterupted

Set aside specific time [~90 minutes every week] after that go back to regularly scheduled programming. make sure there is start and stop time otherwise it is not play.

Maximize pondering time by making decisions when they are due, not right away; most creative people often stay with a problem longer

Have confidence to fail; there are no wrong ideas.

Make sure humor is involved = its a quick way to go from close mode to open mode

Keep going back to problem a solution will appear

You are more creative when you can bounce ideas off of other people [make sure they are people you like and trust & be sure not to negate their ideas; always be positive]

Bonus japanese business tip re: company meetings - Let junior ppl speak first so they are not intimidated to provide ideas different from veterans

found via Ryan + Kortina

Memo to myself: See if John Cleese is hiring.