Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson discusses divergent thinking in this talk on changing education paradigms. Have our schools been educating creativity out of young people for generations? How can we establish environments that facilitate creativity? 

Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Here's Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk that asks whether schools kill creativity. He shares the story of choreographer Dame Gillian Lynne and ponders whether today she would have been diagnosed with ADHD instead of sent to dance school. 

Creative Confidence

In this talk, David Kelley talks about how to build creative confidence. If you are the type of person who has a fear of having a go at creative projects, a fear of your ideas being judged, then this is the talk for you. 

Think about how this talk relates to the self-efficacy component of PsyCap. Could Kelley's work be used as a workplace intervention to build this element of PsyCap?

Creative Genius

Writer, Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love talks about our elusive, creative genius. She describes people's negative reaction when she announced as a teenager that she wanted to be a writer. The reactions were mostly about fear of failure. Gilbert also discusses the ancient Greek and Roman view of creativity and contrasts it to our modern view of the individual genius.

Creativity in Choreography

If you like dance, you might enjoy this video on choreographer Wayne McGregor's creative process in real time. You might never look at a letter A the same again!