Excerpt from Ted Talk on Creative Confidence 2012, might be a topic worth addressing in method chapter.http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2012\/03\/01\/building-creative-confidence-david-kelley-at-ted2012\/<\/p>\n
David Kelley starts off his story in third grade, at Oakdale School in Ohio. His friend Brian was making a horse out of clay. One of the girls sitting at his table looked over and said, \u201cthat\u2019s terrible! That\u2019s not what a horse looks like.\u201d Brian\u2019s shoulders sank, he wadded up the clay and threw away his horse\u2013and Kelley never saw him take on a project\u00a0quite like that again.<\/p>\n
This type of thing happens all the time. People often become uncomfortable around creativity \u2014 and yet surely creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. And so, Kelley set out to understand this phenomenon and think about how he might counter it. One of his first stops: the Stanford psychologist,\u00a0Albert Bandura<\/a>, who developed a step-by-step process to help people overcome their phobia of snakes. An unexpected consequence of this methodical journey: overcoming fear in one domain subsequently gave people new confidence in other areas of their lives, too…<\/p>\n Then he puts his own wish to the audience. Don\u2019t divide the world into \u201ccreative\u201d and \u201cnon-creative,\u201d he urges. Let people realize they are naturally creative. \u201cLet their\u00a0ideas fly; let them achieve what Bandura calls self-efficacy,\u201d he concludes.\u00a0\u201dWhen people regain that confidence, magic happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Excerpt from Ted Talk on Creative Confidence 2012, might be a topic worth addressing in method chapter.http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2012\/03\/01\/building-creative-confidence-david-kelley-at-ted2012\/ David Kelley starts off his story in third grade, at Oakdale School in Ohio. His friend Brian was making a horse out of … Continue reading