JOHN CLEESE WCF

[brunnoreis87]

Someone please translate?

[lachimnamlok]

I would be interested why some people do not like this video?

[LaurieWilliams5066]

@lachimnamlok My guess - very likely just the same people that Cleese mentions at the end - the control freaks, the bad managers, the jealous ones. That's if any of the 13 people who have expressed dislike of this excellent presentation ever got to the end. Watch those question marks.

[kathleenpivot]

Important information expertly expressed is priceless.

[DreamerOnDrugs]

I accidentally paused to video on 06:07 but then I found out;; JOHN CLEESE IS TOTALLY DOING THE CREEP!!!

[rjhonicky]

@nickwalnutIndustries I actually think he's correctly using the term unconscious. IIRC, the subconscious generally refers to a portion of our subconscious mind that we can unearth and understand by careful insight, probing, etc, whereas the unconscious refers to portions of our mind that can only be understood by observing our own behavior.

[OShaughnessyC]

Avoid interruptions. Good advice!

And, as John says, we don't get ideas from our laptops.

[akazombie]

I don't know what the setting really is here, but it sounds like the audience doesn't get that 5:08 is a joke -_-

[thesoupnazi101]

Fantastic. Really helpful.

[TheHowks]

Very smart man as well as funny. I take my hat off to you sir.

[heavymetalchains333]

I sn't that amazing!

[babyskybluex3]

cs125 whaddup

[metmass]

I love listening to this man

[DoobyMastah]

If it was possible for a man, I would bear this man's children. I honestly would.

[BartLouwers]

@DoobyMastah Actually it is possible, but you'll need a woman to grow the thing.

[noogetful]

@BartLouwers I demand back the brain cells that your comment has destroyed.

[BartLouwers]

@noogetful We are living in 2011.

[noogetful]

@BartLouwers ......... implying that needing a woman would supercede his entire comment. Voiding it of any humor....

[ExtremeBogom]

@DoobyMastah

Thanks for that lol. Made my night.

[liljonbon]

this is an amazing speech! im gna use wht he says from today and take my talent too the next level!!!!

[nickwalnutIndustries]

I assume he means "subconscious" when he says "unconscious" :S

[whiterican74]

Does anyone have a full length video of this???

[haantje68]

If someone else was doing this lecture, most probably I wouldn't have watched. Educational and humorous at the same time.

[iWantADadLikeJesus]

Flanders <3 :D

[Melopeed]

I'm not able to listen to the audio. What is he talking about?

[gorthorki]

@Melopeed dead parrots.

[HaibaneRakka571]

It looks like bits of this are missing, is there a place where the entire speech can be acquired? Streaming, download, or purchase, I don't care. I just want to watch the entire thing.

[boggymog]

What he said last is so true for university.

[kallaloo1]

yessssssss....THANK YOU john cleese!

[Moebiu24211]

heil cäsar

[Kegle68]

Genial, einer der Besten!

[criminologypays]

I love how he talks about not getting any creativity from our laptops and on 06:43 they just stare into them =D

[markdykeman]

absolutely worth watching

[yellow6100]

who are the people hes talking too???

[retroron5053]

John You gave me an answer as to why sometimes I can't tap into it. I noticed that you said unconscious mind. If you're unconscious then you're knocked out. Maybe you mean to say subconscious. Which is your minds thought process that runs your brain function and keeps the old ticker going. I don't even want to think about you dying. You have been a great part of my life with your flowery twats and such. Yes I read the signs at the lodge. Take care Retro Ron on you tube Dead dragon tale. com

[CymroGoch]

@retroron5053 No, you should stop trying to be a brain surgeon; you don't have a clue what you're on about. Cleese is completely correct when he talks about the unconscious mind.

[natelake1nate]

I am a turtle.

[jRQLME]

#respect

[ringsmurf]

has anyone found the whole speech? please let me know, it is absolutely brilliant #RESPECT

[AprylZA]

My goodness, he's slowed considerably over 40yrs, but his genius is steadier than ever! Thanks & honor to Mr Cleese for sharing timeless wisdom!!! And now I feel justified for getting frantic over the interruptions...

[merylste]

@AprylZA Slowing is exactly the point. The wisdom of age. Being present.

[369874123]

Where do I found the whole thing?

[1p6t1gms]

Thank you for this in depth thought, it is a generous move to share this wisdom with the rest of us. It not only helps push my consciousness to another level more rapidly, but I believe it does the same for you by doing this action. This apart from any other gains.

[saberj2x]

9:21 mind = blown

[CocoAkitaLuv]

Brilliant. I am an artist and author and have found this to be true. If I have my tea in the morning and don't turn anything on and read. When I get to work I'll play some non-verbal music like jazz or classical, the flow is much easier to maintain. I often unplug the phone. Once I am nearing the editing or finishing stage of my work that isn't as important. But while I am creating something completely new - interruptions can be devastating. Anticipating them can be even worse.

[Gorshkin111]

@CocoAkitaLuv Very true. I have found it to be exactly as you say. However, almost nobody else I know understands this, because while they may be successful in other fields--firefighters, law enforcement, sales, etc.--they are not creative personalities. And, as Mr. Cleese points out, this leaves people with very little respect for the creative process & how it works. Typically, I've found it frustrates most people to even try to go into it, so I don't anymore, unless they ask & then prompt.

[lazyweb]

@CocoAkitaLuv Utterly true. I program, and do systems administration. The latter destroyed my programming.

Programming is not just writing down instructions for computers, it is holding state, in your head, because the structure, although not moving, is modelled that way, again , in your head. Sysadmin is interrupt driven. At any time something could happen or you could be asked and _anticipating_ that makes you unable to leap into the void of creation! Now I code at night. I am happy.

[Gorshkin111]

Who the hell DISLIKES this? It's John Cleese talking about creativity? Are you 5 people SERIOUS?

[GamingKnight48]

@Gorshkin111 My father, for some reason he hates Cleese.

[donoden]

I can not hear this words often enough. Its has a very, very hight value!

[xrakovshik]

As wonderful and true as his ideas are, for some reason setting restrictions or limits for when I'm going to give myself creative time is intimidating.

[ssghunteal]

Brilliant! 

[salwatching]

Oh wow - I want my boss to see this - it'll be grounds for tossing out interrupters and time-wasters!

LOVE it!

[aemit7]

Absolutely boring !

[himaro101]

When i'm in my little world, i can create all sorts of images in my head. the idea of creating an oasis works very well for me.

[sweetnpeachy1]

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[liszty64]

Great speaker , I love the notion of boundaries of space and time !!!

[askaichin]

the last person he was talking about was my ex creative director. Damn!!

[ThatEccentricguy]

at school people come and try and teach kids how to be creative, i think thats bull, you cant teach people how to be creative, but john Cleese is teaching you how to embrase creativity, which is brilliant

[MrCruggero]

i just want to take a moment to commend a truly creative individual in John Cleese. It is the great gift of humanity this extraordinary ability to create and share creation with the greater society that is so purposeful and fulfilling. there are few others that have done quite so well as Mr. Cleese and his constituents. a truly remarkable literary mind.

[insertclevernickname]

Was the audience on xanax? His subtle humor seems to fly over their collective heads.

[1glassMilk]

Die belgen kunnen ook echt geen grap herkennen he :P

[Pchart7]

I keep waiting on the jokes....

A great video though, from a comedy genuis!!

[hkraft]

This is right on. Create boundaries of space and time!

[sunnyrosegarden]

Wonderful:  the last few minutes were SUPERB!

[Blondiiiieee1995]

He's very funny ;)

[maaskeimorgen]

I watched him live yesterday, and he was amazing :D & he didn't look - at all - like a man who has lived in 70 years ^^ He's still goddamn hot xD

[MCRmyMajor01]

Wow..... He's so right...

[111Socrates777]

I agree with what he said. However I would posit that moving from mediocrity to mastery of something is far harder than if it where possible, under the right conditions and tutorledge, to move in a sort of fluid motion from incompetence to mastery.

[maaskeimorgen]

I don't get why they laugh when he says ''.. & we'll be dead soon'' ?

Anyway, he's the sexiest and smartest and coolest and most eloquent man I've ever known of! He's amazing (:

Too bad he could have been my grandfather.

[follettomalefico]

An easy way to create boundaries of space: The Pomodoro Technique. ;)

[mysterbee06]

What's interesting to me is that he didn't discover he was creative until college.

What does that say about secondary school?

[kias4ever]

sheer genius and certainly not an Ex-Parrot. 

[gavrjdodd]

I'M BRITISH!!!!

[kroovyandcal]

boy. 30 year old monty python joke revisited. dirty phlegms.

[NoOtherNamesWereLeft]

John Cleese is brilliant!

[andrewbnash]

Thanks for Garr Reynolds (Presentation Zen) for blogging about this very instructive video on being creative. Hard to believe Cleese is even better without a parrot on the tele.

[cinoevil]

I know that I am not good at picking one thing to devote my time to. If I am aware of this; would that not mean that I have the ability to recognize that? Would that not mean that I do not have a blind spot to see that problem? How would that mean that it is the same lack of ability to not recognize as it is to not have that shill set?

still loved the talk.....

[cinoevil]

I don't yet understand what seems to be the key point of the talk; thought I would bounce it off youtube to see if I can get it. If we are not good at something it means we also lack the ability to know wwe are not good a something. How is this knowledge helpfull? If we are not good at orginization; how is that the same lack of ability as not knowing we are not good at orginizing? How can that awarness help?

[mixelek]

very wise guy!!!

[cyrfung]

09:03 is golden

[jayasimhan]

Does anyone know where we can find the complete talk?

[jaminhoyle]

The video stopped playing (needed buffering or something) right after he said that the worst thing for creativity was being interrupted. Ha!

[daflip9000]

Absolutely awesome: To know how good you are at something requires the same skills as it does to be good at those things. Which means if you're absolutely hopeless at something, you lack exactly the skills to know that you're absolutely hopeless at it. This is a profound discovery. that most people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing, have absolutely no idea that they have no idea of what they're doing. It explains a great deal of life.

[emyhre]

This is nothing new. These ideas have been around for years. I remember inspirational speakers of the 80s propagating these exact same concepts.

[memyselfandidontknow]

@emyhre and YET YOU STILL SUCK...

[jody2shoes]

Brilliant, many layered man. How could any true comedy genious NOT be truly an observor of human nature? I especially liked his phrase about the "little Tortoise mind."

[aliheathfiled]

Great reminders of how we can use our creativity. Often we are so busy keeping up with the myriad of tasks that we forget to take the space and time to be creative. John Cleese gives us a Master Class in what's important to us all. Our personal and business lives are so much richer when we allow ourselves to be the creative people we are. The challenge is to remember to set those boundaries and give ourselves the time and space.

[eikumbokum]

lol at the irony @ 6:43

[casablancaexpert]

I love that someone who is so capable of making us laugh, it also capable of such deep thought -- I find his comments in this short piece are so true... and yet so many of us today are so busy rushing about that we are likely inhibiting the creativity that is just waiting to bubble up for us all to experience!

[markHeimdall]

I couldn't agree more with this great man!!! we all need our personal oasis in order to create and tell your wife "please I don't exist for the next 30 minutes" xD

[acoustifried]

At the end he was referring to the Dunning-Kruger effect. The man is a genius.

[squazz]

jenkees!

[CarlosMarinaJulia]

Truly enlightening! Self-reminder: dont't forget to come over again and again till this lesson is learned!

[seymores]

If you follow GTD this stuff is not new. The bit about sleeping over the problem is worth reminding.

[lvecsey]

that last bit in particular was interesting, I hadn't heard that one before.

[juanecheyt]

I wanna be like him when im old enough!!.... This is a really cool guy!!

[riverman83]

he is a funny person, but can be a real ashole some times.

[influx801]

@riverman83 I'm sure the same can be said about many others.

[clickswitchh]

So true

[alan021es]

i really agree with him on the last part of it , when talk about professors and lack of creativity , we all felt like that , in a moment or another.professors want students to sign his name on the paper in a certain way .know what i mean?

[Idude893]

A very enlightening lecture by a comedy genius.

[Empathisantin57]

@Idude893 ....human genius....

[Monarch441]

Amazing! I haven't heard anything I disagree with concerning this man yet. Incredible talent, perception and courage in this very unbalanced world. Wish I could meet him.

[frozenfisherman]

wow this is excellent

cleese is awesome

i write skits from time to time and i think this will really help!

[hkraft]

Love this. Great information on creating boundaries of space and time in order to create!

[skreidle]

"Genius". :)

[glemercier]

This man is an absolute genious!!! You can learn a lot from him.

[Empathisantin57]

@glemercier MUST ! learn from this GENIUS....

[joflow]

@glemercier You don't get to decide who's genius if you can't even spell it. He's great, you're a dummy.