"The Hidden Path to Creativity" | Stephan Schwartz | TEDxOrcasIsland
Futurist Stephan A. Schwartz has researched the key elements that catalyze creativity and shares them with clarity that encourages us all to access our creative muse.
Stephan A. Schwartz is a columnist for the journal Explore, and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net where he covers trends that are affecting the future.
For 40 years Stephane has been studying the nature of consciousness and exceptional human performance. He has written numerous magazine articles for Smithsonian, OMNI, American History, American Heritage, The Washington Post, The New York Times, has produced and written a number television documentaries and four books: The Secret Vaults of Time, The Alexandria Project, Mind Rover, Opening to the Infinite, and his latest, The 8 Laws of Change.
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Schwartz's 6 steps to creativity: 1) gain mastery 2) deep conviction that there is a solution to what you are working on 3) humility to let go of what you think you know 4) 'inward-looking-ness' 5) sustained intentioned focused awareness = Eureka moment 6) be able to translate and replicate insight to share with others
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Thank you very much. I listened a second time thinking I missed him mentioning any steps!
@@StephanieSoressi instead of Urekai moment, how bout....addie moment
. etc xcp- “ pattern recognition n willingness to learn n expand “ in said field etc ^
Franz Kafka ~ "You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
Yes, indeed...yet, be prepared to wait, many years!
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Creativity is not what an innovators do - it is something that happens to them. Let it happen!
I am a futurist. I have confirmed quantum entanglement is involved in the remote viewing experience. I was walking into the quiet room at the hospital. I was convinced there was a scientific explanation for extrasensory perception but I had not been able to research anything concerning quantum physics. Suddenly something that was unclear becomes clear. That event I described was in 2006 my mom was in the hospital for cancer surgery. I had not asked the question. My intention was first focused on knowing if I could influence. Mind over matter. Successful observations of perterbatuon. Increases confidence
"In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” - Rollo May
I love to be alone
Agree. 😀 I wrote a book about this, Fearlessly Alone and how to be happy no matter what. It hasn't become a bestseller... yet 😉 There's still so much stigma around being alone.
I’m just learning to be alone and I’m 76. Yet I didn’t mind being alone up to the age of 19…..fear of dying alone haunted me and wasted my creativity and life.
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We're never alone Quantum entanglement in a web of the magnetic field. Like tuning to a radio station requires isolation ie sole focus a solitary mindset.
We can't wait until we master something to be creative. Also, if I had waited until I became good at playing music to start writing music, I would've been dissappointed that the music I wrote didn't live up to my skill level. Writing music is a skill in itself.
Absolutely wonderful talk. Listened twice, more to come.
Wonderfully elegant talk about the true process of creativity.
I've been thinking like this for years I never knew he existed until today by accident.
To harness creativity one needs to train your brain into exploring new doors of perception. The ability to do this exists in nearly all of us but unless you seek you will not find. To think before you see is just one conceptual approach that can stop just believing in what you see. You need to explore your own mind pictures so that when you create them you can decide whether or not to keep them in your visual library of tools you can later use in developing your unique minds eye. It's an amalgamation of these techniques that lead to the creation of something new.
Fascinating TED talk! Good job, Stephan!
This has given me an exciting process to focus on during meditation
Very helpful. Thank you from an artist!
Beethoven's 5 Secrets has always been a favorite of mine. Now this little lecture is too.
Loved this so much
Holding intentioned Awareness Is the springboard of understanding That lifts us from the duality of thought Which can only birth a Loveless life
Aha! Great talk...
Interesting talk and I appreciate Stephan's approach and dedication. As someone who has been enthusiastic about creativity for over 30 years, researching it, teaching it to Masters students and increasingly incorporating it in my life, i do have a couple of points where i diverge from him. The described attempt to produce creative geniuses through a prescription of following six steps is not that practical, nor highly desirable. Why? A. There is a lot of variety in paths to creativity; it depends on the person, their situation, the field and many other factors, which we refer to as contingencies. SO, the real, evidence-based answer as to how to make people more creative is complex, messy and not as simple as 'follow these six steps'. However, we, by and large, DO NOT want messy and complex answers; we want simple and elegant answers that tell us the recipe for something. This desire for over-simplification is understandable, but not realistic. There are MANY paths to creativity; the six elements identified by the speaker are important and, in many ways essential, but not always _sufficient_ conditions for creativity. B. The approach suffers from a classical research fallacy, which is selecting the successful stories while ignoring cases that fail to fit in. What i mean by this is that Stephan refers to a few dozen creative geniuses and tells anecdotal stories about them to support his thesis. However, for this approach to be really scientifically valid, he needs to demonstrate that creativity cannot happen without these steps and that EACH time the steps are followed creativity will occur. It is easy enough to read biographies or people and speak to people you know to realise that, often enough, following these steps does not lead to creative genius and that some geniuses did NOT follow these exact steps. C. Lastly and maybe most importantly in the context of a TED talk: do we really need to invest our efforts in producing more creative geniuses? I don't think so; our fascination with that top .001% is understandable but not very useful; in some ways it is not different than following celebrities and being charmed by them. Don't misunderstand me: I admire and deeply respect all the persons Stephan mentioned; i just don't think there is much point of trying to imitate their paths. Imitation does NOT lead to creativity! So what DO we need? We need to teach children and adults about the wonder and value of creativity and that all people can be MORER creative; not to put in front of them a sky-high target like Einstein and Picasso that, from my personal teaching experience, inhibits and prohibits motivation to be more creative. The main things we need to do, as societies, governments, educators and parents is: 1. To convince people that enhancing one's creativity is possible (and there are various ways for that, which are partially covered, indeed, in the six factors described at the talk); 2. To create the social conditions that increase likelihood of creativity (which we also have sufficient research about).
I agree with you mostly, but Picasso wasn´t a genius... he uses drugs to get those results... it´s a known fact. Creative people often have a different view of facts and things than others, they have different perception and association processes, very mentally curious and have no fear to the unknown.
Powerful message indeed
Excellent and important talk
What did Nikola see in the park? Actually Tesla tells us the trick, in great detail, yet everyone misses it (perhaps they just cannot SEE!) He quotes that bit of Goethe's play Doctor Faustus, when Faust imagines himself lifted above the Earth at twilight, becoming halted in space, while the planet turns beneath him ...rather than standing with all of us on the Earth while the sun apparently rises and sets (with every country having a different offsets, different phase-lag.) That was Tesla's trigger. (Faust then says that if he could actually do this, rise into the sky and look down, then he'd have achieved one of Nature's greatest secrets.) Observe the famous Gramme Machine ...the device which was currently tormenting Tesla, and which had been used by professor Poschl to embarrass him in front of the whole class ...now suddenly becomes an AC motor! A trivially obvious idea! All we need do is to hold the rotating ring-coil still, and turn the stator-magnet instead. As Tesla later says, all DC motors are actually AC motors, where the rotating coils experience AC only. Therefore, hold those rotating coils still ...then manually apply AC to them. The stator-magnet will then spin rapidly! Reverse the sun/earth rotation in your mind. Obvious ...but only in hindsight, once the breakthrough has been made. Simply turn the Gramme-engine inside out. It's just like having the sun cease its rising and setting, while instead our sun stays still and the Earth is carrying you along. Then ...rise up high following the (unmoving) sun, so we can look down on a world in perpetual twilight, yet everyone down on Earth is still experiencing day and night, in differing phase-rotation. It's an AC motor. But rather than vibrating, spins in just one direction!
Amazing ted talk
Thank you!
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Nice!!
Would've loved to hear Good Ole Stephen tlk about Ingo Swann!!
THAT would be something...for sure!
Check out his interviews here on KZhead on "New Thinking Allowed". There are several of them and they are amazing. Also if you are into Ingo Swan, many of his coworkers are interviewed on there as well!
Thank you too
Can someone summarize the six steps so we can compare notes?
nice talk
Ive been doing some of my own videos on this and you are right. :)
Anyone else notice how all of the geniuses that he named also share several characteristics and the absence of others?
Great talk.. I appreciate the 6 steps. I also noticed not a single woman was mentioned. Perhaps study to the women who have made remarkable differences and use them as examples.
My answer to Mr Swartz is that each soul is here on a mission as a reincarnated soul who must be able to operate within the matrix of being earthbound to overcome the false predominant philosophy and liberate the truth of the soul's mission to chip away at false concepts that keep us all prisoners in each lifetime.
Amazing how unpopular this talk is
Do you know the song that this video starts with?
Learn the law of nature and you'll Create change
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I love creativity I hate the way artists have zero self awareness of how the earth has to be destroyed so they can be creative
so what are the 6 steps?
Great question, he holds it together for about four, then you can't tell for sure what the other two are. 1. Master the craft. 2. Deep knowing that there is a solution. 3. Surrender preconceptions. 4. Technique of inward looking. 5. ? 6. ?
5 is “Aha moment” / “nonlocal consciousness” 6 is “the ability to explicate and replicate”
Beethoven was a genius of adaption-he composed music after losing his hearing.
how do we define wellness. I wonder if we are often culturally overwhelmed and silenced out of "intention focused awareness" by the cult of "positivity focussed awareness" which only gets half the picture and misses out on the collective unconscious contribution to the aha moments. ( I realise that's a ramble there, but I 'm just wondering ... all the meditation in the world won't bring the wholeness if we are only focussed the selfness, and not the connectedness.). It's been my experience that the good, the bad, and the mediocre are all part of wellness. All of them have to breathe through us to get to radical wellness . Really seeing and being seen is the root of wellness I think, Imagine the aha moments that would come from that. I'm chronically ill but radically well. okay no more rambling now....... :).
It"s not rambling, it's free flow of thought as you describe your thoughts, and it's a gift and takes practice :).
Always start with "what if?" and pick the most irrelevant point to connect the dots. Your neurons will find a path.
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Thank you all very much
My son's IQ is 140 he is 20 years and studying psychology
people who can talk about creativity is never highly creative
I don't think mastery is needed for creativity
true. Still, I think mastery is needed for discernment, and for the ability to communicate with others about your insight. I find this last requirement the most difficult of the 6 steps due to my shyness and fear they won't understand me.
Absolutely unreal that for nearly 20 minutes, not a single woman artist or scientist was named. Not one. Whew.
Every old isn't a booomer.... 🙄
The problem with Ted talks is the first half is explaining why their talk is best..get to the point right off..I'm bored in the their validation of why what you have to say is valid..getto the point
I think Ted Talks are required to follow the Tedx formula. but yes, I also love to read the abstract, to see if I want to read further.
so when I tell you that global warming is based on computer models that aren't worth a damn, you're not going to ostracize me right? I enjoyed much of what you've said, but I'm not sure you're going to live it when I completely disagree with your application.