3 tools to become more creative | Balder Onarheim | TEDxCopenhagenSalon
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. “Growing up makes us less creative. Therefore we have to re-learn creativity, and luckily there are multiple ways to do so,” says Balder Onarheim, PhD.
In everyday language, ‘creativity’ is often used in relation to artistic creation. But amongst scholarly researchers it is acknowledged that creativity is one of the most crucial human traits.
Balder is PhD and creativity researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the founder of the Copenhagen Institute of NeuroCreativity - an institute devoted to understand and disseminate knowledge about the neurological underpinnings of creativity.
“Creativity is not just about art - it is one of the most crucial human traits. It lies at the heart of innovation, thus it is not a superficial skill but a necessity for human survival,” says he says.
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Creativity is like a muscle. You need to work hard even when you're not getting the results you may be wishing for. Be patient with yourself. In time, you'll be where you want to be. It's you VS your perception of your progress in time.
very courageous and open to bring in political examples
Everyone is creative just depends where you use it.
Great
we lose our creativity with age/specialization because of materialistic reductionist training of industrial culture
I stopped listening when he set Putin as an example of a leader... Couldn’t get passed it.
Conclusion: So if your not creative find creative people and steal their ideas and hide their bodies
Creative people discover ideas Intelligent people create those ideas
This is for people who have never thought about creativity. It's what you do before 101.
Great man great thnx very much
I think you should mention that Putin is a dictator also.
great talk, great tips👌🏼
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SOmeone please explain to me, how you mention Putin as an example of your goal (creativity) WITHOUT getting political?
brilliant!!!
thank you
These TED talks are starting to resemble the guest speakers we had to listen to in high school.
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Very interesting. Great advices
Interesting!
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Why waste time on all these bs stats at the start.......
Aaah! Finally Pewdipie gave a TED Talk!
LMAOOO love you
I can't trust advice from him if he can't pronounce creative correctly.
How about sudoku
The lip-smacking nooo
thank you for making this
When they give you 2 red dots to make sure you don’t move off... but you straight up ignore it Just joking.. It was a great talk!
Why don't you get to the point
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Great Talk and great presentation!
Loved it!!
There has got to be a link as to why potato is such a common random word when watching this video, it happened to me too
12:44 I hacked it! Random word: glershck
Classic example of random words (stream of consciousness) are the lyrics of the song “The Waters of March”.
that's how you "sleep on a decision"
great..
LSD is a pretty good tool for creativity lmao
me da risa porque todos repiten lo mismos y todos dicen lo mismo, leen los mismos libros y parece q saben, pero son lo mismo todos. Es increible estas charlas
The mic is picking up the sound of his mouth opening and closing, it feels like one of those weird videos that people whisper on
Lmbo
This guy really should have researched other ted talks before desighning his. He wasted so much time telling us creativenes is important. People who listen to ted talks r not the average sheep. Every time I c a ted talk that wastes so much time covering basic knowledge before actually getting to wat people come for I scroll down and c people writing comments like this or key points of video listed to save time. I even watched a ted talk on how to give a ted talk before. Plz folks a lil research. Thats wat this community is about. If u really need this much filler time then mayb theres a reason y. To leave on a good note ur doing good. Its not u but ur methods. Anything can b improved. Once again thats wat this community is about.
Wow.. I can attest that I have tried only the 3rd idea (Wikipedia Random Articles) and it does work!!! Thank you so much. Is it working for other people?
It's peewdiepie
his power point is out of the box
that man smacks his lips a lot. I couldn't concentrate
Simple , Wise and RANDOM Information
ok thaz cool
The cameraman should change not only the angles, but also profession. Great speech tho!
He is not talking creatively,he is too intellectual .An expert in creativity but he doesn't live creatively ,he studies it,he has rules for creativity ,creativity has no rules.
Hip hop artist are creative,I like that.
14:43 I was playing Tetris as I heard this. For all who are interested, my 40 line sprint time is 40 seconds
Let's see. I'm writing this out of my memory to enhance my long-term learning: To practice creativity 1. Come up with words or concepts that are as far from each other as possible 2. Use sleep to come up with solutions. To do that think of a problem and tools before sleeping but don't try to solve it because you'll get too excited and lose sleep, and in the morning write down what you dreamt about even though it seems like it had nothing to do with the problem 3. Associate with force random words or concepts to your problem to see it from a different angle
my first three words were potatoes, mashed, and sleeves xD
his outfit isn't too creative......
He's there to pass information on to you. Not distract you with meaningless fashion concepts.
he talked and didn't say anything
Take a sip of water FFS!
He is so hot 😌 how to concentrate on what he is talking 😌😌😁😍😍
"Try to think of random words when u brush your teeth" i didn't understand it clearly can anyone brief it to me . i would be very thankful to your precious time.
Mr0strich I get that like say for instance “Tire”and “pillow” but how does that help creativity? Are you supposed to find a reason why these things are related afterword or? I’m very confused and I would be very thankful if you explained:)
So this is late but I'll answer anyways. His advice is to come up with random *unrelated* words quickly. Usually when trying to come up with random words they will have some connection (to the previous word or your surrounding). E.g. Toothbrush, Teeth, Mouth, Eat, Food, Pizza...... Instead you should try to come up with something like this: Toothbrush, Tire, Australia, Table, Rain, Children, Glass.....
the lip smacking sound makes this inaudible
hey wait a second ! i guessed Car tire too ?! now is there any science behind this that can give an explanation?!
I'll remember these points for next time!
Is anyone else bothered that he didn't stay in the red circles?
Ha.. yeah I noticed it too.
Thinking outside the box (circles, in this case)
Thank you, that was great.
learn to be more carosmatic, got bored after 1 minute
You lack creativity and obviously you are boring
Putin!? Really!... bad example..
if i think about the question i try to solve before sleep, i simply cannot fall asleep -.-
same hahahaha
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What is wrong with being artistically creative? Of course, you can be creative in every aspect of your life and Art is a field of experiments that can help you with that. For the association of ideas that can enhance your creativity: poetry. For image thinking: drawing and painting. For resolution of problems: music, sculpting, videomaking. Take it as an exercise to open your mind. Then apply whatever you found there in other sectors or fields of knowledge. Why kids have no problems in solving problems like the 9 dots one? Because they are still in touch with the amazement of learning how to be human. I watch kids getting out of classes to wander in the hall when there aren't many people looking. Most of the time they need to move their bodies, but not only walking to and fro: they MOVE their bodies. They will go out of class and do a little dance while going about. They do cartwheels just for fun, or they stop and look at something that no one had the time to notice. If they weren't obligated to sit down so much during their day at school this world would become much more interesting. And then parents tell their kids: do not run, do not move this way, do not put your head like that. Once, when I was a kid, I saw my teacher tell a student not to move his eyes a certain way unless authorized by a doctor!
whooooa that was life changing
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Wth?
Love this
very informative talks,,,thank you!for all of them!synchronicity!!!
this is honestly one of the most random things i ever came across
awesome speech
Yes, putin is really creative. His technique is: lie, deny lying by manipulating words, lie again.
i think he’s referring to how he rose to power, i can’t tell you exactly because i don’t remember, good story tho
I think it was not talked about simplicity. When you force to be simpler, you force you brain to be creative
How is that ?
come on. Anyone can be creative. But very FEW can get PAID to do it. Talk about THAT and get 10 million more viewers from art schools cranking out little portfolios for overindulged millenials!
Hey if this isTLDW: here are his tools 1 brush your teeth every night and and think of 3 random word then think are are the random 2.wake up your self after playing tetirs and then question it while questioning every thing and try to solve the problem with your dream mind after wakeing up every 6 hours always wirte crazy kooky stuff down. 3.this guy just use Wikipedia random generator to seem like a wild random creative mcgee but he just click the wiki ranodo button which means he is but the puppet of a algorithm tweaked by some dude who now knows he hold this mans creaitve life in his hand. 4.this snaky guy didnt even say this but make sure you your self are ironic like hes named bald and is hair.
I thought of Sun Moon and Bird. Im fkin weird
The Impaler Banana, electron wave, heat.
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Best tips ever
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Nice talk! I like that the 3 tools are so simple that anyone could use them :) He is a good teacher
so boring
genius
IDEA HEXAGON will help you for projection of idea and boost your creativity :)
It's "creeee- AY - tive" not "CREH- tive".
Great talk. Really great takeaways. I liked the whole thing. Don’t think a summary would have as much impact.
3 tools are: 1. Try to think of random words when u brush your teeth 2. Think of one problem/ challenge before u go to sleep and note what u have dreamt about that is related to the problem as we get creativity peaks during our dreams 3. Hit the button "Random articles" on wikipedia when searching about ur problem to find if u can combine sth new and random into solving ur problem
thanks
Thank you, you saved my time
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Thank you
How to transform 17mins into few secs... x-)
omng! I loved the nine dot solutions by kids! I would never never never have thought of them! It reminds me of the physics teacher that put this question on a test: given a barometer, find the height of the school building. Of course, the students knew that air pressure (measured by the barometer) gets lower as you go higher. They said to measure the pressure at ground level and then on the roof. Find the difference and use a math equation (given in books) to get the height. But here are CREATIVE- and funny - answers: 1. Find the school maintenance guy and offer to trade him the barometer if he tells you the height of the building. 2. Tie a string to the barometer, stand on the roof, lower the barometer to the ground. Then measure the string. 3. Drop the barometer from the roof and time its fall till it smashes to the ground. An equation gives distance. Can you think of out of the box answers?
Ha.. love those answers.. sorry Nate.. I can't think of anymore besides what those kids saw. Nate, your example of the different answer from kids, highlights that by asking many people about the problem on hand is also a good way to problem solve/think creatively.
The three tools: 1. Continous practise 2. Priming dreams 3. Use randomness to solve current problems
Interesting! The first book to take readers inside the experience of creative inspiration hits bookstores tomorrow (3/6/2018). It's called, "Deep Creativity: Inside the Creative Mystery," and is the culmination of a 30-year exploration into the heart of creative inspiration. It stresses the idea that creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
Thanks for the recommendation. Sounds like a good book. I like how you mentioned that creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
He has two shadows!
Stacy A: there is more than one light shining on him. The more light sources the more shadows. 👍👍
I advise people here to watch the whole talk before reading the comments who for some reason the people in them volunteered to summarize the talk and losing the many ideas and information in it
Don Givani I am talking to the different :)
Speak for yourself, everybody is different
A math teacher would tell you a line passes infinitely both ways through your bloody dots. Why most people think Mathematics doesn't require creativity is beyond me.
Chocolatier Since most people don't understand Math and aren't highly creative, so it's understandable, but not obvious. To add, creative people look further and see more than the average person, so it's more than understandable to me that most people would be concerned with the supposed obvious, because most people aren't creative.
Since it is almost never used in any creative area in most people's lives? Pretty obvious.
Thanks so much, I also use my surbodinates to do the thinking.
impressive
Great talk T.Y.
The first word i think of when I'm standing there with my toothbrush trying to come up with 3 random words seems to always be "potato".. so I decided to make it 4 and simply ignore the first one.
Mine were Meteor, buttcrack, and Canada.
my first three words were potatoes, mashed, and sleeves xD
bro same omg
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Summary : “We put rules into there, that are not there” . That’s why we are not creative.
Tahseen Mik it reminds me of the joker in The Dark Knight