{"id":1413,"date":"2012-06-02T23:19:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T03:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2012-06-03T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T16:15:26","slug":"john-cleese-on-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/02\/john-cleese-on-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cleese, on creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure that by now most of you have seen this wonderful lecture on creativity by John Cleese, but you haven&#8217;t, you absolutely must. It&#8217;s fascinating, insightful, and will quite simply make you a better person. Normally I&#8217;d be joking when saying that, but in this case I am categorically not &#8211; 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:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VShmtsLhkQg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Should you be disinclined to watch a 36 minute video on youtube, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tjluoma\/John-Cleese-on-Creativity\/blob\/master\/Transcript.markdown\" target=\"_blank\">here is a text transcript<\/a>.\u00a0The merest snippet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Because, as we all know, it&#8217;s easier to do\u00a0trivial\u00a0things that are\u00a0urgent\u00a0than it is to do\u00a0important\u00a0things that are\u00a0not urgent, like\u00a0thinking.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s also easier to do little things we know we can do, than to start on big things that we&#8217;re not so sure about.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure that by now most of you have seen this wonderful lecture on creativity by John Cleese, but you haven&#8217;t, you absolutely must. It&#8217;s fascinating, insightful, and will quite simply make you a better person. Normally I&#8217;d be joking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[242],"tags":[250,249,239,241,240],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-2","tag-creatiity","tag-creative-thinking","tag-john-cleese","tag-on-creativity","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-mN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}