
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

Once you have the answers to these, then you go away, decide how valid the problems are … and fix them yourself. The people you have asked will probably suggest their solutions too. Ignore these completely.
John Cleese • Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
don’t ask yourself who is right. Ask which idea is better.
John Cleese • Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
creative people are much better at tolerating the vague sense of worry that we all get when we leave something unresolved.
John Cleese • Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
creative people are much better at tolerating the vague sense of worry that we all get when we leave something unresolved.
John Cleese • Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
Now you’re in a logical, critical period. After a time there, however, when you’ve assessed everything, you will get a bit bored. That’s a sign that now is the moment to go back into your creative thinking mode again. And so you go backwards and forwards between the creative mode of thinking and the analytical mode of thinking until, finally, you
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That’s the great thing about working in comedy. If the audience doesn’t laugh, you know you’ve got it wrong.
John Cleese • Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
When you’re being creative there is no such thing as a mistake.
John Cleese • Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
Making an imaginative leap
John Cleese • Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
So you just sit there and, eventually, as the mind quietens, odd ideas and notions relevant to your puzzle start popping in your mind. But they are … odd! And the reason they seem odd is that they’re not what our usual logical, critical, analytical mind is used to. They don’t arrive in the form of words, in neatly typed little sentences. Because
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