Ideas

Today i am thinking about creativity. What is the essence of creativity? Why do we have it sometimes and not other times.

I watched two pretty amazing videos today from the TED conference that make you really think about creativity and what is possible.

The first is by the author of Eat, Pray, Live about creative Genius. Creative people often feel pressure. Pressure from within to create again, pressure from without to top their prior achievements. She suggests one way to deal with this pressure. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/453

The second is by the founder of Second Life talking about how virtual worlds are exploding as people seek to have an alternative reality. One very interesting stat he gave is that as a person is grows older in their real life, they spend more hours per week in Second Life. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/410