Yes I think creativity is a muscle. To be creatively fit we have to exercise that muscle. Everyone can make art. It is our birthright. As physicist David Bohm says in his book On Creativity- making art is about strengthening a fit with ourselves, each other and the world. The only thing I would add to the conversation started in your talk is that yes we are naturally creative, all kids need to be free to express that natural creativity, but not only for the benefit of a better life in a technologically sophisticated world but also for a better fit with the living world without which we cannot survive. To be creative is to be closer to nature, to other creatures. Thanks for your super work!!

I was very skeptical when I started listening to this talk, I waited and kept open. I see how the "gift" idea gives others an ideal of entitlement to take advantage of you becausee they think you didn't have to "work" for your talent, and how ourselves can not give enough credit to our own work. . Materials aren't free to work on either, framing isn't free. Great points.

The best gems in this presentation start at the myths of creatives that starts at about 17:00 and through the end. FYI, the essay: www.huffingtonpost.com/dustin-timbrook/want-your-children-future-art-school_b_9131836.html

Read the essay, then watched your talk. Feel like a cat rolling in catnip. I have a very quirky, home schooled 11yo daughter, and this is very affirming. Thank you!

THIS TALK LEFT ME WITH AN UNEASY FEELING IN MY GUT.

Everything...is a gift. Or nothing is. Choose your perspective. Take the gifts or wait for nothing.

This is the most engaging Ted talk I’ve ever watched 🧐🙂

Legend!

Some people are just really uncreative, we've all met those types...

Loved the presentation.

Excellent

That was funny ^__^ I liked the pessimistic narration of a positive talk haha

Great points in this!

youd make a awesome father...

that was great...

Dude looks like Charlie Day from Sunny in Philadelphia

This is going to sound like I'm trolling (and I don't troll): Bragging, bragging, bragging. I was media director here....I was creative director there. I went to so-and-so magnet school. Who gives a flip. You giving a TED talk on creativity or giving us your resume. You didn't capture my attention until the end and by then I moved on to a better talk. Thumbs way down.

The term artist is already redundant. Given "modern" art museums today (or at least the ones around the Dallas Fort Worth area, seem to infatuate the idea that it doesn't take real skill to be an "artist" . I literally saw a "sculpture" in California where there were logs laid out through the forest. No pattern or anything just fallen trees moved to make a trail of timber. And that guy is now one of the top "artist" in the world. Then there's people that have painted a canvas blue and what looks to be scotch tape that just got pulled up leaving a white line that sold for hundreds of thousands. Since when did we stop accounting for skill and this all become about popularity and politics?and now thanks to social media , everyone is an artist. There's more supply than there is Demand, that's why people only want to pay 20 bucks for a piece of work you made. It's no longer valuable being Everyone can does it

Moral of the story, TEDx sucks, long live TED.

underwear painting!

Meh.