Thinking outside the box: Eastern and Western perspectives on creativity | Leon Tsao | TEDxUGA
Have you ever thought that you lack creativity? Maybe what you actually lack is perspective. By sharing an Eastern perspective on our Western concept of creativity, Leon Tsao emphasizes the importance of achieving a balance between the two.
Leon Tsao is a graduate student in the Gifted and Creative Education Program at the University of Georgia. He works under the advisement of Dr. Bonnie Cramond on neurodiversity advocacy (the idea that we should appreciate the diversity in which people's brains and that we should not shun differences), finding the relationship between ADHD and creativity, discovering the benefits of interdisciplinary collaborations including that of engineers and artists, and identifying the needs of philosophically gifted students. He is working on a book comprising of a series of artfully composed short essays and poems about discovering the inner self and the interconnectedness of all. He is running a video blog on personal growth through personality typology. He likes tennis, chess, painting, playing guitar, and singing. He hopes to teach at a community college or small college some day.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
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I've always seen creativity as being more about the process than the product. In working with yarn, I often choose simple patterns to let the beauty of the yarn shine. Other times I use simple yarns to create complex patterns. I suppose that's my personal take on balance in creativity. Thank you for giving us something to think about.
OMG I KNOW HIM! GREAT JOB LEON!
Incredible. Exactly what I was looking for.
Lol, an infp having to present things as Te/Se/Fe to get an audience's attention. I can feel the vulnerability where you think your Fi won't be valued to an audience/will be seen as weak... but actually it looks like inner power to me. This is such an interesting talk.
@j.s0n
4 жыл бұрын
Infp Island agreed
Quite an insight, well done. Thank you
This was awesome Leon!! I love your work and passion🙏🙌
@TypeTipsLeonTsao
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
While in the past we ought to choose what we is needed, now we need more and more to choose what we don't need.
Awesome to see you on a Ted talk! A very enjoyable one, as well.
Internal experience versus external output. Well put.
Wow, so much richness. Thank you! ❤
LEON hwaiting...!
awesome talk
that was wonderful
@TypeTipsLeonTsao
8 жыл бұрын
+Long Ho thanks, Long Ho! Always love your support.
Interesting that eastern art reminded me of a math equation and a physics equation. e iπ + 1 = 0 and E=mc squared.
@TypeTipsLeonTsao
8 жыл бұрын
ackdood How do the equations remind you of eastern art, may I ask? :)
@ackdood
8 жыл бұрын
ackdood phew, I couldn't remember. Those two in particular get rid of everything that's not necessary and give an ease of comprehension to insanely complicated ideas. Reducing to simple balanced equations... that's beauty. I think that's why these two equations are so well known and not the application of them.
@TypeTipsLeonTsao
8 жыл бұрын
Daniel Laing Those are excellent points! I thought about that too. I would think in terms of academic Western philosophy there is a tendency to rely on Ti and Ne. The East does in generaly convey an introverted attitude. Sometimes I think of Japan as ISFJ with a big ENTP shadow (crazy inventions).
Western creativity Ne/ Eastern creativity Ni?
@OtimObita
8 жыл бұрын
+AmazingMannyy +Type Tips
@TypeTipsLeonTsao
8 жыл бұрын
+AmazingMannyy Eastern creativity is Ni and Si as well. Western is Ne and Te.
@aybmnn
8 жыл бұрын
+Type Tips Hey Leon great talk! are you INFP? i guess it wasn't easy for you to stand in front of an audience :D
@LeonTsao
8 жыл бұрын
+Ayoub Minen There is a thing about introverts which they can have a great stage personality, but are very quiet offstage. Think Freddy Mercury.
@aybmnn
8 жыл бұрын
Leon Tsao i'm introvert myself (INTP) and i can have good stage personality for a short period of time once every 10 years lol if the topic really interests me. I think it's like the fist impression you give to new people you meet where they think you're an extrovert while you're not it's just like your persona or something.
So basically: western = maximalist; eastern = minimalist
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@j.s0n
4 жыл бұрын
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Has this guy ever seen anime?
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