{"id":17378,"date":"2014-02-12T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T13:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=17378"},"modified":"2017-08-21T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:40:08","slug":"pbs-video-explores-how-to-be-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/pbs-video-explores-how-to-be-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS Video Explores \u201cHow To Be Creative\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people often wonder just where creative people pull their ideas from. So, when our founder and CEO, Mr. Davison, forwarded along a short PBS Digital Studios documentary called \u201cHow To Be Creative,\u201d suffice it to say that we were intrigued.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17379\" title=\"How to be creative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/How-to-be-creative-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/>We think that you will be, too, whether you consider yourself to be \u201ccreative\u201d or not!<\/p>\n<p>In the documentary, professionals that many people would deem creative, including an author, a filmmaker and a computer scientist, delve deep into the creative process, \u201cdiscovering and inventing new processes that yield great ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They explore the varying meanings of creativity and suggest that it is simply making something that didn\u2019t exist before, like a work of art or a new dinner entree!<\/p>\n<p>The video also reinforces the notion that creative people must push their ideas forward, whether they feel that their \u201clight bulb illuminates or not.\u201d Further, the documentary suggests that all ideas are a sort of \u201cremix\u201d of another idea or as we like to call it, a \u201cBetter Way\u201d of doing something.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17380 alignright\" title=\"PBS how to be creative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PBS-how-to-be-creative-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are so many great messages about creativity in the video. In fact, one of the interviewed sources says that idea people should realize that, \u201cYour ideas are not you. Criticisms of your idea are not criticisms of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For inventors, idea people and anyone who has ever been told that they\u2019ve dreamed \u201ctoo big,\u201d the video is a must see:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/weIQIthC3Ks?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright Davison 2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=weIQIthC3Ks#t=48\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=weIQIthC3Ks#t=48<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people often wonder just where creative people pull their ideas from. So, when our founder and CEO, Mr. Davison, forwarded along a short PBS Digital Studios documentary called \u201cHow To Be Creative,\u201d suffice it to say that we were intrigued. We think that you will be, too, whether you consider yourself to be \u201ccreative\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[264,1573,8,1574,1575,1576],"class_list":["post-17378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-2","tag-creativity","tag-how-to-be-creative","tag-invention","tag-pbs","tag-pbs-documentary","tag-pbs-special"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PBS Video Explores \u201cHow To Be Creative\u201d - Davison<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Davison confidentially works with people to develop their new product ideas. 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