Loved the "spark" tool at the end - small, transportable, provocative and more than likely an object to which everyone in the audience can relate! Great job, Gregg.

Imagination is the faculty, the workshop, but the subconscious mind is the source.

The speaker provides some excellent examples and very generously shares insight into his own personal creative process. Great stuff!

Amazing content

Ideals are meaningless, if you don't put them into Action!

Its was interesting when he explained how Edison retrieved his ideas associated with his lab.

You meant that we need to understand "nothing" time to imagine and mush up different concepts into one. We will have a creativity and take action

I love it very practical.

Good one

I have crazy good imaginative abilities (a synaesthetic mixture of visual, sound, and propioceptive). One of my favorite activities is to sit around and "watch the show" that just flows through my brain. How to monetize this? THAT is the big question.

@donatasivaskevicius193

8 жыл бұрын

+sizzlenotsteak movie script writer perhaps?

@sizzlenotsteak

8 жыл бұрын

+Donatas Ivaskevicius Thanks. I've made some efforts in that direction. Have also been working on a television series called PUNAVILLE (it's funny, I don't even like television and haven't seen it since '04, but you have to follow the art's dictates, yah). Well, I'm actually still collecting thoughts and ideas, but I'm actually writing them down. Hope you get to see it one day. ;)

Stress prevents imagination.

But I couldn't help and notice that the bag strings are red! Not yellow lol

Belfast Ireland? Sweet.

Gregg, I've been trying to track down your Three Oaks Fine Arts Museum, and no one seems to have heard about it that I've talked to in that area. Did it disappear?

@greggfraley

6 жыл бұрын

It was a hypothetical example. There is no Three Oaks Fine Arts Museum. We do have a very fine historical museum!

@daveprice3095

4 жыл бұрын

@@greggfraley Do you have a Shoney's - mmmhmmmmm liver and onions

Didn't Thomas Ed steal most of his ideas off Nikkola Tessla?

@yamnehroncero4238

9 жыл бұрын

Toni Lee Pisses off when they talk about Edison without ever mentioning Tesla...

@greggfraley

6 жыл бұрын

Debatable, but It's absolutely true that he collaborated with Tesla on many ideas. He also had lots of ideas all by himself. Tesla was a genius. So was Edison.

i feel u

I never heard of any one when i was doing an experiment to test an idea that came to my mind at the age of 4 which not even the scientists of the world thought of.

sorry but apart from the line "ideas are meaningless unless you put them into action" this lecture is just another ted talks story of some guys random road to success. He starts with saying no one tells you how to use your imagination and finishes by saying... use your imagination! ask yourself for ideas! ..I'm sure he's a great chap n all but this really isn't very informative, I found the creativity lecture by Nick Skillicorn much more analytical and useful, to summarise his methods on increasing creativity: ...Short term... - get relaxed (pets, instruments, being outside, daydreaming, do whatever you find relaxing) - change your surroundings (go for a walk/cycle if your in a rut) .....Long term.... - change your routine; food, commute, friend circles etc - do regular creative challenges like brain training and improvisation games - seek out new experiences and challenge yourself in uncomfortable or difficult situations (basically keep your mind active then relax when the time comes) - ideas are worthless unless acted upon. I would also add that right before you fall sleep your ideas and thoughts are often most lucid so keep a notebook by your bed or write em on your phone if you're somewhere else :o)

@greggfraley

6 жыл бұрын

This is not really my success story at all. It's an example of concept blending, or visual mash ups for ideation. This is a very specific tool. Agree with your more generic suggestions for creativity, they do indeed work. thank you.

Mash-up is a very basic tool used (too much in my opinion) in design and culture and often includes the free appropriation of all ready existing ideas. It's best used as a way of "loosening the mind" but not an end in itself.

nice

Wow, how imaginative! Well, ask your imagination how to use it instead, because the ending statement is obviously not true, after all what's wrong about having multible ideas, where some may or may not be put into action?

@greggfraley

8 жыл бұрын

+Bjørn Ole Gilde -- nothing wrong with having multiple ideas where some don't get put into action. Actually that's what usually happens. My point was -- put Some of them into action.

8:45

This man was losing me, but I must admit, he drew me in the his ending bit.

@emorygreen4633

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

apparently your imagination counldnt come up with a half way decent joke

@MsFarhat91

7 жыл бұрын

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Yeah..if I watch a TED talk..they need to get to their point immediately.. otherwise..yawn

Unfortunately, Gregg is totally unaware of the inherited individual differences of persons with imagination processes. He obviously has strong visual imagery abilities. I have zero, absolutely no mental images. All others have mixed abilities. I am very "imaginative", but in ways Gregg has never considered. His intentions are good, but for those with weak visual imagery, he would leave them cold.

@nathanglover7283

8 жыл бұрын

+Larry Victor Practice Makes Perfect :]

@nuet1370

8 жыл бұрын

+Nathan Glover You can't practice what you don't have. I know many persons with powerful imagery, and a few others also lacking visual imagery. See the following for a recent research study of this phenomenon: www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/science/aphantasia-minds-eye-blind.html?_r=2 . The diversity of cognitive functioning in humankind provides much more potential for our lives - as the different types of cells in our bodies enable us to be who we are. Unfortunately, many people tend to believe all others are like them. Humanity, yet to emerge, will be much more than a mere collection of similar human persons. Imagination is rar broader set of competencies than most people are aware of. We can all continue to learn.

@nathanglover7283

8 жыл бұрын

+Larry Victor After reading your comment and actually looking at the research i find myself inclined to agree with you, I had no idea.

@nuet1370

8 жыл бұрын

+Nathan Glover I am pleased your were open. I lsck mental imagery in ALL sensory modalities. When I discovered this lack, at age 20, I informally studied mental imagery from my null point. The diversity of mental imagery competencies in the human population is awesome, but known to only a few. For over a decade I surveyed my college students on their imagery. The vast majority were unaware of this significant individual difference. It still puzzles me how persons can live long lives not knowing of their lack of some mental imagery. A student having difficulty learning the art of sheet metal changed her major when she discovered that she lacked visual imagery. Landscape geologists visualize landscapes in change. Mineral geologists visualize crystals. Visual artists are highly competent with visual imagery; musical artists hear new compositions in the auditory imagery. Professional dancers can experience a dance while sitting and watching it being performed. Many persons are burdened with grief because the visual imagery of the lost loved one is very frequently in the visual imagery.

@Jefferdaughter

8 жыл бұрын

+Larry Victor - A key point: MOST people do tend to think that most others are like them. (Liars can't believe what anyone tells them. Thieves think everyone steals...) OR, we think of certain others as 'them' - those who cannot be like us. Sigh. While on a fundamental level we are all incredibly alike and most people want basically the same things - good food, a reasonable level of security for ourselves and our families, something interesting and fulfilling to do - in the details, so to speak, we are each unique. An interesting question is whether the ability to visualize things in our minds is inherited, or can it be learned? If these people are placed in a sensory depravation chamber, do they 'see' images, or simply hear sounds, or...? Or could an experience like this help trigger their ability to form images in their 'mind's ehe'? Another interesting question, for those whose minds freely picture things, is how do people who cannot create mental pictures imagine things that are not in front of them? Or do they? On a more practical level, all the excersizes and steps the speaker mentions could be done by writing things out, rather than 'picturing' them, can't they?

The freezing bench exceptionally untidy because comparison morphometrically part among a clammy sycamore. arrogant, guarded rowboat

The knowing home worrisomely fasten because step-grandmother ironically greet since a onerous front. sable, icy dietician

Well this was colossoal waste of time.