Humans seem to be the only species on Earth that can really harness
the power of creativity with some pretty decent results.
Maybe you've heard of flying the internet, the first personal computer cinema,
renewable energy, the Sistine Chapel, atomic bombs,
youtube,landing on the moon vaccines.
Even if creativity becomes a part of our lives,
is it our jobs to make it digestible for other people?
What's the value of a creative idea if it can't be shared?
If you want to know more about it, make sure you stay tuned
and watch till the end.
Before
going to sleep, I like to close my eyes
and imagine how something
that I designed would manifest just doing it
for the sake of like going into my own little space and enjoying it.
Any idea that comes out
of an elusive process like this will require
a lot of convincing daylight and space that's full of these
like little beautiful marble fixtures and the clients just going to be like,
Okay, that's interesting.
But you saw it in a dream.
Hey, guys. Welcome back to the channel.
If you're new here,
my name's Dami and I am a licensed architect in beautiful Vancouver, B.C.
On this channel, we talk about creativity, architecture and design,
and some tools and strategies for us
to have more creative and meaningful careers in architecture.
Sometimes, creative ideas speak their own language,
and actually a lot of the times the world is not ready for it.
So how do you draw the line, so to speak?
And how do you decide when an idea
becomes worthy to be shared with the rest of the world?
Robert E.
Franken define creativity as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas,
alternatives or possibilities that may be useful in solving
problems, communicating with others and entertaining ourselves and others.
I really like this definition because it implies
that you kind of need another person to appreciate a creative idea.
This is also the reason why a lot of remarkable people with amazing ideas
spend most of their lives in solitude defined by society as outsiders or freaks.
I'm hoping to extract an algorithm to define the movement,
but all they really needed
was a pair of eyes that could see the world the way they do.
Isaac Newton struggled a lot with criticism, and he refused to accept
or be accepted by the scientific community of the time he started
helping out a pharmacist called William Clark , and he was given
an environment where he could cultivate and improve his skills.
He was given the freedom to test out his creativity.
Now, fast forward to his college years.
An astronomer by the name of Edmond Halley stopped at Cambridge University
for a lecture, and those two connected.
And the result was the publication of Principia,
which is a book that pretty much revolutionized
the scientific world for the next 200 years.
But you might be saying you're talking about Isaac Newton
and the fact that you are a different person
and your life is made up of unique experiences will induce
unique thoughts and the potential for creativity.
All of these processes will trigger parts of your brain
that are always going to be unique to you to a certain degree.
In other words, try to see something from a different perspective.
This is a very common expression people use
when you're trying to bring something creative outside of someone.
You could also describe this as a visualization process.
A brain is like a calculator that's programed to constantly
change in real time based on our previous experiences
or tastes or social interactions.
Every piece of information is going to be disassembled
and reassembled in a infinite number of ways,
and a lot of the times you can get some pretty interesting ideas,
but only sometimes it can lead to really meaningful results.
That's why it's important to distinguish between creativity,
intelligence and productivity.
Creativity is being able to see something in a new perspective
and make serendipitous connections between things that may or may not make sense.
Intelligence is using knowledge to make rational and useful actions,
and productivity is a tool that you need to bring your ideas to the masses.
Imagine these three elements as powerful chemical components that,
when they're combined together, can produce explosive results.
Creative behavior is represented
as a combination of knowledge, imagination and evaluation,
which is basically the ability to examine the pros
and cons of a particular idea or a situation when knowledge,
imagination and evaluation are multiplied by a positive attitude.
That's when new creative ideas can turn into something
meaningful and have an impact on the world.
Turns out,
creativity can also be extremely entertaining to watch.
Does this sound familiar?
YouTube needs creative people, and it's constantly improving their systems
to keep them productive and loyal to the platform.
Introducing the YouTube algorithm, YouTube channels are proof
that people will never get tired of watching new content.
Is it really that easy to become a successful creator?
There's around 2 billion active users on YouTube,
and there's approximately 45 million channels.
And from those 45 million channels,
only 230,000 have more than 100,000 subscribers.
0.53 of the channels become profitable channels.
It's cool to be creative, but it takes energy.
It takes time and it takes commitment to be really successful.
Who is considered
the highest example of the creative mind?
How two very relatable problem when he started his career.
Money, he wanted to have an unlimited amount of time
to work on his theories and his creations.
But like the rest of us, had a very hard time
finding access to resources to accomplish that.
30 year old Leonardo da Vinci decided
to write a resume to one of the wealthiest men in Europe.
Ludovico Immoral, Duke of Milan.
In that letter, he didn't include any detailed drawings
or abstract ideas or lengthy textual descriptions.
The entire letter was a one pager
with an incredibly modern value proposition.
In just eleven points, he described the fields of applications
where his ideas can produce incredible results.
The cherry on top of the cake was a free trial offer to fruit fly, he said.
I am most ready to make the experiment in your park
or in whatever place may please, your excellency.
In the end, most of our architecture is kind of
the art of convincing a few wealthy people to spend millions of dollars
in your buildings, and the marriage between ideas
and persuasion is kind of what makes or breaks architecture .
By the way, I also made a video about how to create effective presentations.
If you're interested, I'll leave it right here.
Here's a portrait of a man
who had so many knives that he decided to put a metal plate under his armchair
so that he can, we can fluff up by the sound of his pen falling on it.
It seems a little bit counterintuitive that Albert Einstein
had so many unproductive habits.
But Einstein himself claimed that a lot of his creative ideas
came from a half awake or half asleep state.
He became the most influential physicist of all time
by letting his mind make serendipitous connections
or by taking unusual perspectives on very complicated tasks .
A lot of great ideas do not come from inside your head,
but from the outside and social interactions.
Scientists, for example, rarely
have the AHA moment alone in the lab, and instead
most of them happen during meetings when they're sharing their discoveries.
Johnson also mentioned that every great idea is basically just a reiteration
or a variation of an existing one that someone already brought to life.
The video you're watching right now
is a direct evolution of a system called the television.
This principle is called the adjacent possible.
If you want your creative thoughts to be productive,
you need to find a way of confining them in a controlled space and time.
Instead of
unleashing an uncontrolled form of creativity
and being labeled as the work weirdo,
try to introduce a more logical approach in the following
simple steps being open minded with a positive attitude.
Use different points of view.
Process unusual ideas without judgment.
Be persistent in translating creativity in workable solutions.
If you have a really crazy idea.
Use your more tangible and practical skills to make them more palatable
and always have a Plan B or C or even D,
just in case your bravest approaches are a little bit too brief.
And lastly, let your mind fly high like a kite.
Now, how can we see that?
But as Steven Johnson said, don't give your kite unlimited rope
because sometimes letting your thoughts fly at a limit
at altitude will help your ideas exist in a possible world.
Being a creative thinker needs time and energy.
Maybe your key to success hides
under something kind of weird that you barely understand.
The biggest lesson that the internet gave us
is that no matter how crazy you think you are,
you're really never alone.
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Flying high
as a kite.