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The Creative Brain (Netflix)

Updated: Sep 13, 2021




Creativity starts with a spark, but how does that spark happen? I watched Netflix’s The Creative Brain to figure it out. Neuroscientist David Eagleman interviews various innovators on their mind-blowing processes. Here is the key take aways:


1. Science is creativity, not just art

2. Childhood toys can inspire future useful inventions

3. Creativity is thinking in new ways not done before

4. Animals have a direct path – people can go beyond direct purpose

5. Our brain can make new connections and process in limitless ways

6. The enlargement of the human cortex & pre-frontal cortex is the source of imagination

7. Have plenty of material for inventions

8. We try new ideas & consider the future to overcome instincts

9. Apply the same idea to unrelated things

10. Easy to criticize & hard to be a creator

11. Inputs in the brain are constantly being worked on

12. Combine several old ideas to make a new one

13. Refashion what already exists

14. Document stuff you find like a scrapbook

15. Jazz is combining many different beats

16. Time inspires change

17. Being original is not generation something out of nothing

18. Play with convention

19. Take ideas from everything

20. How can I use what previous masters did?

21. Life experiences are unique

22. Create the extraordinary from the ordinary

23. Explore painful emotions – creativity can heal

24. Creativity can save you from prison

25. You can be reborn through creativity

26. Your feelings are valid – you are not defined by your mistakes

27. Play with subjective & objective skills

28. Learn new skills

29. It is okay to be confused

30. Be willing to be wrong

31. Our brains are novelty seekers

32. Balance between the familiar & the new

33. Improvise once and a while

34. Go somewhere else with ideas

35. Weird can be good

36. Push comfort zone can be risky but rewarding

37. Success rises from the ashes of failures

38. You will dislike past works

39. Creativity can save you from poverty

40. You can learn math through geometric art

41. Teach through the arts

42. Remember the process

43. Creative is your greatest transformative tool


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