This small video is densely packed with wisdom by the amazingly creative John Cleese. You’ll hear this time and again from any introspective and creative individual, but it bears repeating.
- Where do creations / creativity come from? – You can never find the primary source, so lets just call it the unconscious.
- What are the requirements for creativity / creation? – Boundaries of space and time. Eliminate interruptions and constrain the time without interruptions.
The most fascinating, and perhaps timely, was his take on why there is so much arrogant incompetence by the un-skilled.
To know how good you are at something requires the exact same skills you need to be good at that. Which means that if you are absolutely hopeless at something, you lack exactly the skills that you need to know that you are absolutely hopeless at it. And this is a profound discovery, that most people who have absolutely no idea what they’re doing have absolutely no idea that they have no idea what they are doing.It explains a great deal of life…. It explains why so many people in charge of so many organizations have no idea what they’re doing. they have a terrible blind spot…
A fascinating and short video, via 37signals:
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