101 - Finding Creativity

Finding creativity can sometimes be hard, and sometimes be easy.

Music and links from this episode

1. Ambiant Point Of No Return by Kimiko
2. Pinçon by Comme Jospin
3. Feet Gone Wild by Alpha Hydrae

Line-by-line notes

1. INTRO
2. Creativity can sometimes be like a rare jewel
3. Everybody knows the power of it
4. And how beautiful it is
5. But it can be really difficult to find
6. Other times, creativity is like a cheap £2 jewel
7. It’s everywhere
8. And anybody can find it
9. And buy it for cheap
10. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
11. PLAY MID SONG
12. Creativity is weird that way
13. That it can sometimes be readily available
14. And other times
15. Absolutely impossible to find
16. Creativity can’t be controlled
17. It can’t be summoned on command like the other skills you already possess
18. If somebody says
19. What’s 2 plus 2
20. You immediately work out the answer is 4
21. But if somebody says to you
22. I want you to create a piece of artwork
23. About the number 4
24. The answer either immediately popped into your head
25. Or you wouldn’t even know where to begin
26. Imagine selling your creativity professionally
27. It can sometimes be a difficult skill to harness on command
28. Some days I’ll turn up creatively
29. And some days I know my creativity has gone for a walk
30. But I still need to summon up the ideas
31. The thing that usually separates a seasoned creative
32. From a young inexperienced one
33. Is the ability to use techniques to summon the mysterious power of creativity
34. When it isn’t readily available
35. It might sound easy
36. The job of a designer
37. Just sitting drawing stuff all day
38. But the pressure is actually much greater than that
39. Most people get to enjoy their creativity when the mood strikes
40. But professional creatives, people like designers
41. Have to learn to turn it on like a tap when it’s necessary
42. So because of that the pressure is quite high to perform
43. When you tell people you’re a designer
44. Or a member of any other creative pursuit
45. They expect you to be creative
46. To be different to them in some way
47. I guess in a way that might be true
48. That we’re wired up different, and think slightly differently
49. I think it’s possible that creatives might think slightly differently
50. But I don’t buy the right brain, left brain paradigm
51. I believe anybody can learn to become more systems focused
52. Or anybody can learn to become more creative
53. I think the environment that you put a human being in
54. Largely dictates their level of creativity
55. Children are by default creative
56. And as creativity is often seen as a childish concept
57. As we get older and older
58. We get more of the child pushed out of us, and forced way
59. Creative people are the people who fought back against that push
60. And survived out of the other side to continue their childish pursuit of...