The science of improving your brain’s creativity | Nick Skillicorn | TEDxDurhamUniversity

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Nick spoke about the real definition of creativity, in which consists of ideas that have added values. Values could be in the form of help to someone or businesses or any kind of social help that can make the society better. He emphasised on the importance of working on ideas once they form in our minds to prevent them from slipping away. His talk also answered the question “Why does someone consider themselves more creative than others’? and the answers are due to environments, in which people are brought up and taught, as well as various ways to enhance creativity.
Nick Skillicorn is the CEO and Founder of Improvides, and a Durham University Collingwood College’s 2004 alumni. He’s an innovation coach and author with a deep insight into how your creativity works and how it can be enhanced. His popular blog is at www.improvides.com and you can follow his twitter at @improvides!
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  • @lee-xy3vz
    @lee-xy3vz3 жыл бұрын

    16:32 till the end of the video is what I was looking for (hopefully it's what your looking for too if you don't wanna watch the whole video)

  • @arvinmajhi5296

    @arvinmajhi5296

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @ojenstoneshlem390

    @ojenstoneshlem390

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank man😁

  • @princessnada2552
    @princessnada25525 жыл бұрын

    Some of the connections that my brain made right now is: Since oscillating b/w relaxing and being in the focused mode makes you more creative and come up with solutions, I assume that is why when Albert Einstein used to face a problem that he is unable to solve, he said that he would get the solution while playing the violin (while unwinding , neurons apparently are still working in the back of your mind to make connection and come up with solutions). Truly MIND BLOWING !!! Thanks for this amazing talk :)

  • @frijolitoatomico3583

    @frijolitoatomico3583

    4 жыл бұрын

    Its true. And for some reason my best ideas always come out while releasing waste in the toilet.

  • @tayyabhussain9995

    @tayyabhussain9995

    2 жыл бұрын

    No

  • @aansul333
    @aansul3338 жыл бұрын

    I am 2% more creative after listning this. Thanks

  • @skishan1984

    @skishan1984

    7 жыл бұрын

    Ansul Singh j

  • @skishan1984

    @skishan1984

    7 жыл бұрын

    H

  • @skishan1984

    @skishan1984

    7 жыл бұрын

    H

  • @elliesericati2500

    @elliesericati2500

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ansul Singh H

  • @jakecostanza802

    @jakecostanza802

    3 жыл бұрын

    well, that was unexpected

  • @bbaattttlleemmooddee
    @bbaattttlleemmooddee9 жыл бұрын

    This was more helpful than other creativity talks. The one by Gilbert is interesting too.

  • @AnimeshSharma1977
    @AnimeshSharma19779 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the nice talk :) People often abuse the name of Einstein with the quote which goes something like "Imagination is more important than knowledge." in order to push creativity to a higher status. Glad that the speaker emphasized that a long term strategy to be more creative is to gather more knowledge because creativity is based on the existing knowledge ;)

  • @dareolushina4391

    @dareolushina4391

    7 жыл бұрын

    Animesh Sharma oooooooops, you got it wrong, if you want to take it in the context in which he said it then knowledge makes you uncreative, but thats not the point he was trying to make, remember the first circle he drew, he said that the mind is lazy and when you ask people to come up with ideas, the things that comes to mind is the knkwledge they already have, thats not creativity but the point is not that knowledge is anti creativity, the point is that the mind is lazy and wants to take shortcut, until you make a demand and makemsure you think of new ways and that was the third sector in the first circle he drew

  • @AnimeshSharma1977

    @AnimeshSharma1977

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hey Dare, thanks for the comment :) Yes i agree that lazy thinkers often bring their knowledge to showcase their thinking which is more often regurgitating the facts rather than adding something to it, in the end their knowledge leading them to stop thinking deeply... What i got out of this video was that knowledge is essential for creativity, and since it is often easier to gain knowledge than to be creative, so if one is stuck, it is better to start gaining knowledge rather than the other way... with the obvious caveat that one is now gaining knowledge just to boost their egos ;)

  • @davidgrief5289

    @davidgrief5289

    5 жыл бұрын

    Better Fluid intelligence helps creativity which is not based on knowledge but the ability to solve abstract puzzles. This demishes in late 20s. Crystallised intelligence is The knowledge that we gain and the higher in fluid intelligence you are the quicker you can .

  • @noahcrow8982

    @noahcrow8982

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think you can find an audio clip of Einstein actually saying that

  • @vd9315
    @vd93153 жыл бұрын

    i typed in "how to become more creative" saw ted talks and immediately clicked it. I love their lectures

  • @TheEndevour2010
    @TheEndevour20106 жыл бұрын

    Mind has a way of coming up with solutions to a problem that you probed but not able to figure out earlier. I had a similar experience. I had this problem but was not able to figure a solution for it. Then something else came up while I’m working on something else. Seems like internally neurons made some connection between two separate concepts to come up with a solution for another previously unsolved problem. I think neurons are actively searching for a connection in the back burner and jump up when concepts combined provide a solution. Mind is truly amazing, get as much knowledge as possible and look for problems to solve. Then let mind do it’s job as a slow cooker. Solutions would be amazing for you and for the mankind.

  • @harshshinde7469

    @harshshinde7469

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wow this guy is a genius

  • @rameshrajputcreativechemistry
    @rameshrajputcreativechemistry9 жыл бұрын

    Superb!!!

  • @hoanguyenfutu
    @hoanguyenfutu6 жыл бұрын

    valuable sharing knowledge! thank you very much! :)

  • @williamjayaraj2244
    @williamjayaraj22443 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the wonderful message on creativity

  • @MadMarcWinnipeg
    @MadMarcWinnipeg7 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou!!

  • @user-ck5tn9kg6h
    @user-ck5tn9kg6h8 жыл бұрын

    thanks, some very important tips.

  • @MohabFIsmail
    @MohabFIsmail9 жыл бұрын

    great talk

  • @nano-books307
    @nano-books3074 жыл бұрын

    There is a science to creativity, and creativity advances science.

  • @redwatch.
    @redwatch.6 жыл бұрын

    Great talk.

  • @masum1731
    @masum17313 жыл бұрын

    I love your idea 💡 🙌

  • @mpcc2022
    @mpcc20224 жыл бұрын

    There are two poor presuppositions being made in reasoning that creativity is merely drilled out people by institutions, one, that the propensity to be creative doesn't correlate to personality, and , two, that creativity is a single dimensional trait like IQ. Neither of which are true. Further more, people are comparative, including children. When children are going through their educational experience they are comparing their ability to draw, paint, solve math problems in novel ways, or generate ideas to their peers and if they are not relatively close to the top performers they tend to quit, or, typically, don't aspire to some high level of performance without intervention. Even if our schools promoted creativity the number of people who identified as being creative would still be a small number, because you don't have to just be creative to be considered creative; you have to be more creative than everyone else and that's a tall order that most people are not answering.

  • @brendanh8193

    @brendanh8193

    2 жыл бұрын

    You point to an interesting problem in education. Malcolm Gladwell pointed this out with his comparative analysis of retention in science degrees. He split the cohort up into 3 groups based on SAT scores. Those in the lowest third were far less likely to complete the degree, and SAT score correlated to completion rates quite well. So far, as expected. Except that this trend occurred across different institutions, and did not correlate with SAT, rather with relative SAT, that is how you compared with your peers at the institution. Harvard would have similar drop-out rates as other lower ranked colleges. But what do you see as the solution? Harvard created scholarships for more average students so it wouldn't lose so many brilliant but not relatively brilliant students. Little Athletics (an athletics program for kids) emphasises PBs (personal bests), but still looses the bulk of participants around age 12, where team sports drag participants away. Two considerations can be put forward here. A greater emphasis on metacognition is similar to an emphasis on PBs. Perhaps we could also put a greater emphasis on teamwork, including in exams, like Eric Mazur has put forward.

  • @h.ar.2937
    @h.ar.29374 жыл бұрын

    the last few minutes are dope!

  • @keyzmi

    @keyzmi

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agreed!

  • @sendsidmail
    @sendsidmail3 жыл бұрын

    Excellent

  • @cormacbyrne4768
    @cormacbyrne47686 жыл бұрын

    Well done Nick this is a great talk, Corm (Wapping)

  • @Oliver-vu6su
    @Oliver-vu6su5 жыл бұрын

    Did anyone find any of his sources? Very interesting talk.

  • @stevelowe3525
    @stevelowe35253 жыл бұрын

    Briliant

  • @santanumajee6794
    @santanumajee67947 жыл бұрын

    very creative and asssammmm

  • @macminista2003
    @macminista20038 жыл бұрын

    Can someone explain what he meant by improvisation training to improve creativity in the long term?

  • @merthuseyindomac9134

    @merthuseyindomac9134

    8 жыл бұрын

    +macminista2003 for example playin someone else's song is not improvisation ; it is memorizing , improvisation means you are playin sth doesnt exist, it is from your mind with the melodies that you created immediately

  • @macminista2003

    @macminista2003

    8 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Mert!

  • @santanumajee6794
    @santanumajee67947 жыл бұрын

    good

  • @rushilrahman9526
    @rushilrahman95265 жыл бұрын

    I would use that razor For peeling fruits:)

  • @yougotnojams.5257

    @yougotnojams.5257

    4 жыл бұрын

    We can use it for hanging too

  • @colinwiener3268
    @colinwiener32684 жыл бұрын

    1:06 Jordan disagrees.

  • @jakecostanza802

    @jakecostanza802

    3 жыл бұрын

    Colmag GOAT! Such a shame he doesn’t play anymore.

  • @trippsmith72
    @trippsmith723 жыл бұрын

    I feel bad for the guy that didn’t get his hand called on even though he had it up the longest 😂😂 12:53

  • @vvohvaelez9277
    @vvohvaelez92773 жыл бұрын

    16:21

  • @philliphosking9976
    @philliphosking99765 жыл бұрын

    creat'd'ive....

  • @josefserf1926
    @josefserf19263 жыл бұрын

    Nice try Yoko. No biscuit this time. You'll have to pinch George's. Again.

  • @mxb3ar886
    @mxb3ar8865 жыл бұрын

    Can someone tell me what the “Nonu Amazing only (google it)” is? I see it everywhere and when I search it up nothing helps out.

  • @CP-nl1uo
    @CP-nl1uo2 жыл бұрын

    Well, then I hope I can do something about my noisy neighbours

  • @naomipercimoney5359
    @naomipercimoney53593 жыл бұрын

    i am for nuture, not nATuRE

  • @erichsontheimer2785
    @erichsontheimer27857 жыл бұрын

    ľ0

  • @agalyailangovan
    @agalyailangovan8 жыл бұрын

    s ds a church

  • @sadhansarker9945
    @sadhansarker99454 жыл бұрын

    What exactly is Rotogenflux Methods? How does this thing really work? I see a lot of people keep on talking about this iq course.

  • @robbedontuesday
    @robbedontuesday2 жыл бұрын

    Skillicorn? What is that? A fantasy name? A Skilled Unicorn? Some people are predestined by their names...

  • @minettekakudji374
    @minettekakudji3743 жыл бұрын

    What is Rotogenflux Methods and how does it work? I hear a lot of people their IQ score increased over 17 points with this iq course.

  • @hispeed52
    @hispeed522 жыл бұрын

    I disagree - there are clear correlates between personality and creativity. Creativity can be innate and the speaker seems to ignore this.

  • @sithukyaw9019
    @sithukyaw90195 жыл бұрын

    Those who can't do, teach haha

  • @ideamanbob
    @ideamanbob3 жыл бұрын

    overall covers it... but nothing new

  • @chrismason5477
    @chrismason54772 жыл бұрын

    The little study concurrently lock because handicap consquentially start midst a muddled garlic. tedious, careless box

  • @sebastiandiaconu1221
    @sebastiandiaconu12214 жыл бұрын

    80% of your inteligence is hereditary. kinda sucks, but still kinda cool that you have that 20% to work with.

  • @abnerbeebee
    @abnerbeebee6 жыл бұрын

    Booooooring

  • @clutchcarabelli8054
    @clutchcarabelli80546 жыл бұрын

    there is no left brain vs right brain creativity and everybody is comparably creative it's just how you were brought up... Yeah "Right" Okay .. Next

  • @princessnada2552
    @princessnada25525 жыл бұрын

    Some of the connections that my brain made right now is: Since oscillating b/w relaxing and being in the focused mode makes you more creative and come up with solutions, I assume that is why when Albert Einstein used to face a problem that he is unable to solve, he said that he would get the solution while playing the violin (while unwinding , neurons apparently are still working in the back of your mind to make connection and come up with solutions). Truly MIND BLOWING !!! Thanks for this amazing talk :)

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