"Constraints aren't the boundaries of creativity, but the foundation of it." nice.

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Albert Einstein

A teacher of mine in high school once said something similar. I and a few other students were casually chatting with him one day when the conversation drifted to my school's habit of creating a new rule that hinders productivity after every **one** isolated case. He said, "This school's rules are *reactive*, which is the problem, but having no rules wouldn't solve things either. Think about it like this: if you threw a party but made so many rules, no one would be able to do anything; they'd just end up sitting in a corner. However, if you threw a party with no rules whatsoever, people would be at a loss as to what they could do or where to start, and would also all end up sitting in corners. Meanwhile, if you threw a party and set rules to act as guidelines, that's where people start think up new ways of being able to do the things they want so as to not break them. That sweet spot iis where innovation happens."

I've learned more from Ted then I have in school.

As a graphic designer, I con 100% attest that this is true. I HATE when a customer comes in and gives no thoughts at all on what they want their logo or design to look like, especially when the design is for a field I'm completely unfamiliar with.

This! This video is what needs to be shown to people for funding in the sciences in america! Its not always about finding the end goal, but accidentally solving another goal!

Overcoming creative constraints are so fulfilling !

I love how intrigued and then satisfied those little scientists looks. Vult scientiam!

"constraints arent the boundaries of creativity but the foundation of it" Very well said. This changed my perspective about problems as I will not be seeing them as problems anymore, but a way to reach my goals. Thank you ted-ed. Always been a love and will always be

In my senior year English literature and composition class, the teacher told us our final project would be... anything we wanted. Well, it had to relate loosely to a single one of the topics we covered in class. I literally had no idea what to do, because the constraint of "make anything" just paralyzed my decision making. So I know what this video is talking about.

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Please Upload a Riddle !!

Man this is so true! I'm studying to become a graphic designer, and constraints honestly help so much when I'm creating a design!

There's a lot of studies showing how important constraints are to our everyday lives. Research in behavioral economics has shown that offering an abundances of choices actually makes decision-making harder and decreases the quality of the choices made. Other work in Political Psychology shows that introducing constraints to how people think about questions (through the introduction of frames) actually allows them to structure their attitudes into something cogent. Without the constraint, many weren't able to articulate the contents of the thought-soup that's evoked by difficult issues. TL;DR: Constraints not only help us work with hard problems. They help us think in our everyday lives too.

"if u dont believe that constraints create beauty, please realize that the infinite poetry of the english language comes from only 26 letters" -Jonny Sun

The animations are always so good

i learned this from keith richards, guitar world mag from 20 yrs ago , he said when he started playing in open tuning, especially open g, he now was playing on five strings instead of six. but that it forced him to look at the guitar in a new , fresh perspective, and besides we all intuitively know that the answers to everything are right in front of us at all times anyway

Igor Stravinsky talks about this in his "Poetics of Music" book. Check it out. Great read.

I swear I'm so happy when I see a new video from Ted Ed in my subscription box!

"If you are like most people, you would be paralyzed by this task" But I'm an artist, it's my job to invent things - they don't have to be functional, only to look nice.

To relate this to other subjects, like language arts: it is part of the reason writing becomes easier when given a prompt

In Hindi, we have a word for this "Jugaad" :)

This presentation rings true today. Too many constraints were brought up by the pandemic; however, there were also a plethora of innovations that came up.

Sounds in this video...are sooo catchy! Ted never stops to improve

A good example of how constraints actually boost creativity in arts is the Oulipo movement in french literature and Georges Perec writing La Disparition, a novel with no 'e'.

Boundless freedom can get counter-intuitive, if given to people who can't handle it. But for those that can, boundless freedom will get them to where noone has ever gone. We have to get out of our comfort zone. Without boundless freedom, we'd have never put man on Mars. Our constraints are only mental.

I heard somewhere once that exactly this creative constraint is what makes minecraft so appealing. essentially it's just differently textured cubes but by combination you can create whatever comes to your imagination. This makes you think about how you can build a bed, a fridge, a sink, a castle, a treehouse simply out of cubes so you come up with creative solutions.

In fact, the "skycrane" landing system was implemented as Curiosity was too heavy to use airbags to land. At the final stage of landing the descent stage hovers 65 ft. over the Curiosity as it is lowered by cables, contaminating the area with thruster residue.

I just gotta say, this is one of the greatest animations, you should do more vids in this style of animation.

I love the animation style, thanks 🙏 Ted!

Creative constraints can effect writers if they let them as I see it. Because as long as you have google docs, one can write as much as he or she pleases, and can also write about whatever he or she wants even.

you people truely educate and make us feel we are yet to learn so many things

I'd say creative constraints narrows the possibilities, instead of saying it is the foundation, the problem of not having them is that there are too many variables and it makes it harder for us to focus in what we want to make, it is more of a guide, I think.

I really liked that there was backgroundmusic in this one

your animations are amazing . love it.☺

This is why my survival minecraft world is much more organized then my creative minecraft worlds (as well as more fun to)

I'm having a question -what happened to that sky crane after if made the curiosity rover land on Mars?

"Constraints aren't the boundary of creativity, but the foundation of it."

Constraints are drivers of discovery ✨

When it comes to the realm of art, Self imposed constraints tend to be the best however. Many projects fail or become too Limited when other people who aren't artists impose those constraints without understanding the needs of the project.

But that's a two sided sword. Thinking to much about a constraint may block the creativity. Dan Pink talked about that

Sometimes I think that watching TED-Ed videos should be MANDATORY in schools !

So basically, too many choices could lead an uncreative way. that's why sometimes I hate internet, just ask google, you get millions of results and most of them are against each other, you don't know what to believe sometimes.

I always worried this way of thinking is like thinking inside the box.But after I've seen this video I have been enlightened with relief that my way of thinking (creative constraints) is not bad.

I am not sure about this but there are always constraints with engineering or technical problems. Creative constraints seems more apt for art such as portrayed in the first part of the video. Many legendary art were created with constraints.

Necessity is the mother of creation

That's what I always thought! Glad there's a vid like this on here

I do this every day at work. Whether building or remodelling a home, business. Building, cabinets and creations. Sadly though, this technique is often used to solve the problem of how to put lipstick on a pig. Get it done, fast and cheaply, yet make it look like you did it right.

If school was taught like this, id be a genius by now.

I gave some children an intro to MS Paint today. rather than just let them mess around I constrained their canvas to 48 x 48 pixels. The least impressive designs were those who chose to ignore that constraint.

what are the creative constraints of making a TED-Ed video?

wow !! every time i watch a video i feel so informed !! well done guys

It's incredible... it speaks about virus and landing to Mars... very popular topics now!!

Great video

these animations are so satisfying

i have learned a lot of things from your videos,acculately youtube is rubbis but you making your videos by different way

"Solutions must recognise the limitations of current technology in order to advance it." Very applicable to personal growth as well, it's necessary to put yourself out there - criticism might be the way forward. (Not an easy truth for me to live with, I must say)

AWESOME

that awkward moment when the teacher gives you a free essay and then gives you a low grade because it was "not pertinent with the request"

The sound effects are good but a bit sensory overload

best animation, best explaination and best channel....👏👌

Here's a project I am working on. My goal is to segregate various types of waste like plastics or wet waste through automation for further recycling. I am thinking of using image recognition and machine learning to identify various types of waste. Is there a better way to do it?

funny how I'm racking my brain on how to write part of my short film when this is uploaded

Best youtube channel ever

Music at 3:40 is loud enough to cover up speaker's voice.

Very true in entrepreneurship as well!

These sounds are awesome

we r looking forward to ur riddles...

Actually, if you give yourself some sort of weird rule you can easily come up with awesome stuff. Well at least it's easier to come up with awesome stuff if there's s limitation.

So true !

*awesome*

This video would be so much better with different or lower volume background music.

I LOVE THIS ANIMATION

Just had an Intel advertisement featuring or should I say staring Metro booming... as I am bout to watch a Ted-ED vid.... this is the culture...

Engineers are unappreciated in the world. Let's start The Engineers Revolution! ✊🏼

What was the constraint that was fixed by gunpowder?

great as always

Great video!!

what does that mean by it would lower the rover from high above the surface ?

Video is amazing However BG music was annoying Almost gave me headache

Anyone notice the gear turning the wrong direction at 1:00?

I keep forgetting we haven't actually gone to mars. Mark Watney just read so real!!!!

Just something I needed​ to know! 😃 Keep making videos about science.

Amazing channel

I started contemplating about this after I accidentally softlocked myself from the elytra and ended up making my experience better lol.

why do the editor's of these video's think background music should be just as loud as the person speaking in the video? I think they are misunderstanding the term "background music". It is quite hard to understand this guy because of it.

I love videos of ted they are so funny interesting and helpful i love science because of ted and i learn to much things more then school thanks ted ed 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

Don't know why I got goosebumps. Maybe because of the eerie good music

1:16 that sounds familiar

Creating something new is a problem, because you need to find the way to make a project that matches with your needs. It's obvious that if you don't have any limits you wouldn't have the problem of building something, because it's already solved.

0:16 yes, yes it does. And no, I was not paralysed by that task

People : Why won't you give us complete freedom? Authority : 0:30 Sarcasm intended.

There's no creativity without constraints:)

You are awesome.

Man, this is deep

Background 'music' is a tad bit loud

Setting goals. The first task.

Can you tell me about PAST traveling​.. Is it possible