What can we learn from the world’s most enduringly creative people? They “slow-motion multitask,” actively juggling multiple projects and moving between topics as the mood strikes — without feeling hurried. Author Tim Harford shares how innovators like Einstein, Darwin, Twyla Tharp and Michael Crichton found their inspiration and productivity through cross-training their minds.

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48 Replies to “A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity | Tim Harford”

  1. I always was and still am strictly preventing myself from starting any projects other than studying medicine… My rationale for this is that I have to focus on studyjng as I will be taking care of patients in the near future… So, my whole last few years were doing almost nothing other than medicine.. even the things I am intensely passionate about then I would tell myself that I have a good self-control..
    This not only was unproductive or not nearly as productive as the effort which was being put, it also was enormously draining and bad both for me and my future patients…

    I somewhat had the idea of this talk in the back of my head, but I was too afraid of acting upon it…
    I think it is time to change

  4. Ahh, that filled me with confidence, and naturally that's exactly what I'm doing in the year from that I've taken after completing my 12th standard. Currently writing a book, working on an algorithm(a science paper), learning machine learning, statistics and web development…

  11. Back in 1987 I was a freshman in college. I opened up the college catalog and was excited by EVERYTHING. I wanted to take classes all over the campus. However, I was told that I needed to pick a major, and by end of sophomore year I was derailed. I chose to take time off to “find myself”. Now I’m 54 and have never finished my BS/BA. If I could take everything that I found exciting without putting myself into a box, I’d have a triple doctorate by now. I understand the need to specialize…but I also think you learn at a deeper level when you can discover how different subjects can be similar. I’m disgruntled that our current educational system doesn’t foster the love of learning because it forces us into predictable boxes.

  13. Sorry solving a problem while taking a bath is not multitasking. Mind is free from habitual pattern of action of taking a bath ( or only occupied little ) hence the free mind is able to think about the problem . That too probably involuntarily .

  19. That’s ADD and that’s why many highly intelligent persons cannot read a book through to the end, cause as soon as they come upon an idea their minds begin free association jumping from subject to subject making logical connections, their mind essentially begins to write its own book on the idea!! That’s also why high intelligence is correlated with lots of clutter!! Reading a book to the end forces the reader to accept the authors take on the subject in the author’s pace and from whatever quirky angles he looks at it. It’s like sitting in class having to think at the teachers pace and that is really disturbing to one who likes to create?? Creativity is predicated on freedom of thought and not route learning!!

  23. as a gifted writer with steady success, I have learned that everything want to visit a different room and be presented in another way. Be present among different things and different fields and just move it to another room and present it another way, more mysterious.

  28. I can say genes make me so called creative/I call it creational /its taboo to say genetics did it to me and my birth siblings/I do poetic gardening /co create trojan goat shaped huts for a bnb thats like sleeping in a mini museum,, invented my own art form of rare hand stitching/I build beautiful stone bordered food gardens in the shapes of viking art artifacts carve viking inspired beds with dragons on them and hand sew wonderful curtains, and Im a singer song writer paint flowers on the walls/ceiling/do freeholding spotted fluffy milking goats I specialty bred for the north design furniture and carve it/and a quilt maker of a different kind, my multi tasking lately involves crawling around under a bed with a dragon on it varnishing the floor of a trojan goat shaped hut, I need a break soon, I find using what others use only for poetry for doing everything is my number one tool for living a creational life, poetry not pros /I feel is a way more accurate/productive way of life the poetic mien is letting free cognitive feeling,, poetic reasoning is a rare personality types go to for seeing how life realer works from a heart that cannot be told to and has a new take on living on body work and breath work that blows the yoga myth right out of the water, and embodies flow form body luxury /the more pleasure you practice the less pain you gain !

  30. Well I stopped watching when he began to talk about Darwin Darwin lost a child so big and blame God and could not reconcile that God would do such a thing so he convinced himself there was no God and wrote evolution as the genesis of life and it’s all false it came from a fence and if you were offended you will stumble and not be able to think clearly.

  31. Everyone who could relate to the video might enjoy the book “Refuse to choose!” by Barbara Sher. It is such an extensive view on the same topic, offering strategies, job ideas and simply human stories that it’s okay to love many things at once and that you indeed don’t have to choose one over the other.

  33. School kills creativity as nothing about its system changed since the industrial revolution even though the world is changing faster than ever before. Secondly, Horace Mann chose the Prussian model of schooling for America. Although today we idolize school as the primary route to a good life and success, the school system was not initially designed for critical thinking. Prussia used it to instill obedience among the young to authority. In a way, school has become outdated and ineffective. “Everybody is a genius, but it you judge a fish by it’s ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ~ Albert Einstein

  40. Very inspiring!!! So here is my 2022 resolution then … when I am bored I will not open YouTube anymore.. instead I'll continue my photo albums creation … as long as it takes ?

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