John Cleese (he of Monty Python) on Creativity

[BaalChatzaf]

This is an insightful and humorous lecture on creativity. Cleese would make an excellent teacher.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg&feature=player_embedded#!

36 minutes. Well worth the time.

Ba'al Chatzaf

[George H. Smith]

Excellent job by Cleese. He takes many of the standard points about creativity and expresses them in a succinct, entertaining fashion. Thanks for posting this.

At several points during Cleese's lecture, especially during his discussion of the role played by humor in creativity, I thought about why many orthodox O'ists lack creativity. For all of their insistence on the creative powers of the human mind, as a group (with exceptions, of course) they are surprisingly uncreative.

Ghs

[BaalChatzaf]

Excellent job by Cleese. He takes many of the standard points about creativity and expresses them in a succinct, entertaining fashion. Thanks for posting this.

At several points during Cleese's lecture, especially during his discussion of the role played by humor in creativity, I thought about why many orthodox O'ists lack creativity. For all of their insistence on the creative powers of the human mind, as a group (with exceptions, of course) they are surprisingly uncreative.

Ghs

Excellent job by Cleese. He takes many of the standard points about creativity and expresses them in a succinct, entertaining fashion. Thanks for posting this.

At several points during Cleese's lecture, especially during his discussion of the role played by humor in creativity, I thought about why many orthodox O'ists lack creativity. For all of their insistence on the creative powers of the human mind, as a group (with exceptions, of course) they are surprisingly uncreative.

Ghs

How man Objectivists does it take to change a light bulb?

None. If the light bulb is the light bulb then by the Axiom of Identity it is still the light bulb and it cannot be changed.

Ba'al Chatzaf

[Peter]

Terry Jones, aged 77, of Monty Python died. One of his film quotes from around the time of our liberation of Afghanistan after 9/11: “We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.”