John Cleese, on creativity

I’m sure that by now most of you have seen this wonderful lecture on creativity by John Cleese, but you haven’t, you absolutely must. It’s fascinating, insightful, and will quite simply make you a better person. Normally I’d be joking when saying that, but in this case I am categorically not – though I have not abandoned my sense of humour, of course. The importance of a sense of humour will be clearer after you watch this instructional short film:

Should you be disinclined to watch a 36 minute video on youtube, here is a text transcript. The merest snippet:

“Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking.

And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do, than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.”