The Secret Sauce of Creativity | Stephen Hall | TEDxRegina

Stephen has spent his entire life being creative. It’s not just personality that makes him creative, it’s deliberate practice, process and often straight-up discipline. Come inside the mind of a Creative Director and find how you can be more creative in your life and where the world needs your ideas.

Stephen spent 13 years in the Science Centre community designing exhibits and programs for the Ontario and the Saskatchewan Science Centre; 18 years as a television director creating TV shows for CBC, HGTV and the W Network; and six years as a creative director at Brown Communications Group in Regina. His current clients include SaskPower and Saskatchewan Health.

Stephen’s professional passions are evenly divided between design and storytelling. He is fascinated by the creative process, and is a compulsive storyteller.

Stephen lives in Regina with his wife, Laurie and their daughters, Amelia and Nellie.

[yahalife]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein

[jayaramanthamizhirai]

superb, short and sweet ideas about creativity.thanks.

[the_towngirl]

Worth to listen and understand completely.

[bslangable]

A little bit to business-like at times, but overall great talk, especialy the end message!

[yordyrmz]

Congratulations. It is such a great TEDx talk; I totally agree with this!

[jchigheagle]

Apollo 13 was the highlight of my career at NASA. My career ended in retirement after 40 years of service as a 'rocket scientist'. Our motto: FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION!

[williamjayaraj]

Excellent message on creativity. Yes. Even absurd ideas must be respected. To solve the global warming as he said that global brain stroming is needed because the time is running short. Thank you.

[GarviHere]

He look like ryan from whose line is it anyway but with white hair and beard

[beautynarak]

Amazing & Completly True & Very Importen
for Exacly Creativity Lifestyling forever Time.

[soinlove]

It's sad this talk only has 3k views :(

[georgegalamb]

The Apollo-13 mission's lack of breathable air problem and its problem solving method is way over used by creativity experts. Let's not forget that all NASA's space programs are surrounded by some of the world's best scientists, who many of them possess specialized knowledge on all fields, and on how to solve problems quickly. So let's think about what would happen if those scientists was replaced with average people. Would those average people be creative enough and knowledgeable enough to know exactly what could work? No they couldn't be, because besides creativity, you also need specialized knowledge.

Everything else he said is right on. But the Apollo-13's problem solving technique is hardly can be considered as a great example of how creativity works for the rest of society. We definitely need to solve our CO2 and air pollution problems, and we have plenty of scientists all around the world who are warning us for decades now that we need to do something, yet nothing still happened, because of the enormous power of the energy industry's influence on our politicians. The real problem is not lack of creativity, but rather: lack of powerful people who are dare and able to combat the energy industry's aim for making even more profit for themselves. The real problem is selfishness, greediness, arrogance and making as much money as they can.

[thapaharis]

one of the most beautiful ted talks I have listened up to now. It's amazing and delightful.
thank you so much.

[mpking-eyys]

I like this. There are few talks about creativity which I don't get bored, derisive and dismissive with. My god, some of the other speakers about creativity are the least creative people I can imagine.

[thomasnyariki]

I like the way he defines creativity in a more logical way as in easy to understand like a professor

[csjames]

Wow that was inspirational especially the end piece. We do need to find a creative solution damn fast or we will probably not be around as we continue to poison our home, mother earth.

[SysdefWonder]

03:45 There is no force of gravity down. the chair is just falling.

[petersimpemba]

It's the 4 box opened in the Antlatic International University student login

[properpsychology]

"In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” - Rollo May

[jchigheagle]

As a flight controller in NASA Mission Control Center, my position was Retrofire Officer. My job was to compute the return-to-earth trajectory to bring the astronauts around the moon and back to earth. I can tell you a LOT about creativity!

[tombradford]

The secret sauce of creativity remains secret