Thursday, 11 September 2014

4 Lessons in Creativity (Week 7)

How’s it going everyone, it’s me again with another new topic. This time I’m going to tell you my reflection about a video from www.ted.com with Julie Burstein as the speaker and it is about 4 lessons in creativity.

There are 4 people who can be said as successful persons as examples. The first one is Mira Nair, an India people who was firstly inspired to dedicate herself to theater from a folk theater in her country called Jatra. And later, she became an award-winning filmmaker. The lesson that I get from this person is we have to open ourselves to get experience. We have to embrace experience as we will become more creative by learning from it.

The second person is Richard Ford. This person inspired me so much that he could become a novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize even he is having dyslexia, a disorder which can lead to bad comprehension in language and reading. He said that some of powerful work comes out from the most difficult parts of life. I learned from this man that our weakness will not stop our destiny as we keep embracing challenges in our life.

Richard Serra, a great sculptor is the third person as the example. He was firstly a painter but then he left paintings and becomes a sculptor. I can learn that we have to push ourselves away from limitations.

Finally, the last person is a photographer named Joel Meyerowitz. He had been in a building rubble that was caught on fire. At that time, he felt that he had to take pictures, but suddenly a cop hit his shoulder and told him that taking pictures is prohibited. However, he kept taking pictures that it had to be recorded as history, in his mind. He said that passionate optimism is important, as it forced him to take many pictures about this place.

We live in the cycle of creation and destruction. We have to be ready to let go of something, taking challenges, or even undergo bad situations in life. That’s all of my reflection about this video.



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