How to build your creative confidence | David Kelley

[roughryder]

Ever since I left my circle of friends who would constantly berate me with negativity, I have experienced such a increased quality of life. Got a great job in my career path and met wonderful and genuine people from there. Honestly, if you hang out with people who treat you like crap...just cut ties with them and find new friends.

[lolar]

In my own experience i have come to see that creativity is the ability to find "a" solution for a problem instead of "the" solution.

Most of us do this all the time without noticing, but we do not consider it creativity because misconcepcions and prejuices.

I used to feel blocked when had to be creative and consider myself an analytic person.
I read a lot about it, to learn on how to unblock myself. It was helpful but not much.

The big change happens when I started to pay attention how i felt the moment i had to be creative. I notice sometimes i got angry or anxious because i was trying to find "the right solution" instead of the solution that fits me . So instead of avoiding the task i just tried to do my best and it worked most of the time.

I did this again and again and again and became a practice. Now, i do not call this creativity, the kind of Picasso's creativity ( i do not think that can be taught), it is just kind of a skill.

[onaturalia]

Throughout my career my biggest obstacle has been people discouraging me from my ideas. You have to ignore them in order to succeed at anything.

[RonnyereSenaVital]

Inspirational, when I was younger, I used to draw mangas, but, everyone around me used to say that being a manga designer would be a good choice as a profession, it wouldn't give me enough money to survive, unhappily I believed it and because of that I never developed my drawing skills, I really regret of having listen to them, as I've learned people, Never let the others say what you have to do, if you accept their opinions, you will end up like me, follow your heart, everything else is bullshit.

[sarahfranklin]

Love his talk but I'm distracted by the fact that he looks like the teacher that kept yelling at Dash in the Incredibles

[greyhound]

I studied for my exam and pretty good on it. I understood the subject and did some examples which i did well.
But i failed.
I am not extremely sad but I've been thinking a lot and i came to conclusion that i Failed not because i am not smart enough or not mentally-ready but because I'm not Creative at seeing things. It gives me a new experience and i am thankful for my Failure. I am creative and i believe I'll make it next year.

[wukongtheairbender]

This talk is great. It brought a tear to my eye. I remember being little and getting tired of being scared of the dark. So I directly challenged it and went for a walk at night by myself. I faced my fear directly and came out of it more free than ever.

[moniquevamado]

This was wonderful. What a lovely, sweet man.

[alotanacs]

This video should be renamed "why creative confidence is important". There's no "how" in here. Nothing that can be implemented.

[Brrbank]

even though its kind of necessary for college, this is why i hate grades in school! im a good student and i get good grades, but i think they limit us. they tell us to think outside the box, but then say we're wrong in the way we're thinking. especially in language arts. I get the corrections on grammar, but what about the content? its like a picture where there is a line of students thinking about different things (and the thoughts are in the shape of a cloud like we'd draw as kids) and the teacher was going down the line of kids, one by one and cutting those thought clouds into squares. i really liked this ted talks btw.

[folusohope]

The video left me in tears, the story telling was super told. We've all been told at different times, that we're not good enough, not creative enough, there's been different label at different times, change comes when you begin to see yourself outside of those labels and you take baby steps to changing the status quo

[sarahhoang]

This is a wonderful speaking and it helps me a lot with my confidence while doing art. Whenever I was working on a project and my friends start to give out comments like hey that looks funny, or when I see other people work. I start to feel bad about my work and sometimes I just quit. I start to think that I'm one of those non-creative people. And I'm afraid that people might judge me so I stop sharing my ideas.

Now I know that, what I did was wrong and this speech give me the motivation to be confidence about my ideas and work. And not to be afraid of being creative

Very nice guy. I love your speech

[KarenNg]

so true.. everyone has that heartbreaking moment as a kid when somebody says shit to us and we minimise what is possible! Love this video, for reminding us we are powerful when we take action in what we want to do, and not be held back by misguided beliefs about Thank you once again TED!

[hpqzyxn]

My problem is always confidence. In minor everything, although I prepare detailed part and practice carefully, whenever I stand before the audience the tension and fear ruined me. But, after watching this video, I realize the reason why I have lost my nerve. And I feel that I can get creative confidence, bury myself in important things and come up with interesting idea. thank you so much!

[ELMcenter]

LOVE this. As human beings we are all natural creators. It's so nice that there are people out there who place importance on this.❤️

[MrCosmoNinja]

Well that was just a roller coaster of emotions.

[gulinlangbroek]

What a sweet and naturally inspiring guy. If he says I can be creative, I believe I am!

[Kyrmana]

My elementary school teacher actually brought me onto the creative path, just because she wrote "You're especially good at drawing" on my graduation paper.

[christophermacclements]

This is great. I agree wholeheartedly with the notions of creative mistrust. I consider myself a creative person, however there are so many out there who have never fully tapped into their potential because they perceive themselves to be less creative people than others. If your gospel is that of instilling creative confidence back into others please continue spreading the word. The world needs at this time, more than ever, a creative revolution that will spark something wonderful. What ever this may be, I am not sure. All I know is I support your message. 

[sunnysunny]

creativity is important to increase the choices in my life, and make my life more creative