John Cleese on Creativity as Mood, not Aptitude
I am a huge fan of Open Culture for their daily inspiration of open source books, videos and more. Recently, they posted this on John Cleese of Monty Python fame and his views on creativity: Drawing on research from his friend Brian Bates, a psychologist as Sussex University, Cleese claims that ...[Creativity] is not a skill or an aptitude, it is a “mood,” one Cleese describes as “childlike”...