Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?

By Eric on Friday, October 16, 2009
Filled Under: Authors, TEDTalks

"Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process,
 journeying through her childhood and family history and
 into the worlds of physics and chance, looking for hints
 of where her own creativity comes from. It's a wild ride
 with a surprise ending."

Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity

By Eric on Friday, July 10, 2009
Filled Under: TEDTalks

"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."

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

By Eric on Friday, May 22, 2009
Filled Under: Authors, TEDTalks

“Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly
moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.”

Can You Learn To Be Creative?

By Eric on Sunday, May 17, 2009
Filled Under: Research Channel
"For years we thought that in order to be creative
 you had to 'be born with it.' Now, new thinking
 on the subject reveals that everyone can learn to
 be more imaginative and creative -- all you need
 is high energy and strong motivation. Find out
 how to tap into this learned skill from today's
 expert panelists. Joining host Robert Kuhn are
 scientist and sci-fi novelist Gregory Benford;
 creativity and happiness authority Mihaly
 Csikszentmihaly; corporate creativity expert John
 Kao; artist Todd Siler; and poet Rhoda Janzen."