Creativity Under Pressure: Todd Henry at TEDxXavierUniversity

We often think of creativity as an uncontrollable and accidental thing that seems to happen most when we least expect it. Todd Henry is a student practitioner of creativity. He has discovered that introducing structure into our lives can make these accidents happen more often.

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[Nicholas Turon]

"Cover bands don't change the world." ~Tod Henry 14:09

[Lyden Foust]

My favorite part is the "Die Empty" at the end. His book accidental creative is my playbook whenever starting a project.

[Matthew Sloan]

shit, most important part is 9:06-10:20

[Matthew Sloan]

oh and I'm pretty sure "genius" is the creation of new ideas and things to be existing, not simply knowledge of things that already exist, though those things that already exist are useful tools.

[Matthew Sloan]

Einstein never(to my extremely basic knowledge) created an object-he spawned creative ideas and wrote down these ideas(that randomly popped into his mind) and these ideas were turned into objects, built by other people. That's just what I think though.

[IQ267]

*insert creative comment here*

[TheSweetestVegan]

He's not watching the right people on YouTube. For instance, I don't think this is a waste of time.

[AnalogBurnout]

I write a LOT of lyrics and every now and then i totally lose my motivation. I always think to myself, "how could my writing...change the world or.. how can it permeate through history." this guy has inspired me to never give up. awesome young chap he is.

[Ryland Zweifel]

On point! Your ideas ring of truth. It soo good to hear someone verbalize these ideas :)

[513FIT]

A much much needed message

[Courtney Bolton]

great message, Todd. You made all your finest points in good time.