{"id":3882,"date":"2013-05-15T09:59:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T16:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2013-05-15T09:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T16:59:34","slug":"john-cleese-on-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/john-cleese-on-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"john cleese on creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Cleese gives a good lecture here on how to set up the <em>opportunity<\/eM> to be creative. Not how to be creative, which he can&#8217;t teach, but how to set up an environment to let creativity happen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f9rtmxJrKwc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His commentary also applies to trying to divide out creative-type-work time from bookkeeping-business time, which is difficult if you struggle with things like relative importance of art. (See also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2013\/05\/14\/tiger-babies-bite-back\/?mod=e2fb\">aftereffects of &#8220;Tiger parenting&#8221; and &#8220;Harsh parenting.&#8221;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>He also has some tips for PHB&#8217;s at the end, which you may find amusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cleese gives a good lecture here on how to set up the opportunity to be creative. Not how to be creative, which he can&#8217;t teach, but how to set up an environment to let creativity happen. His commentary also applies to trying to divide out creative-type-work time from bookkeeping-business time, which is difficult if [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-coolness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}