Name: How to build your creative confidence
Uploaded: 2012-05-16T15:30:52Z
Duration: 11 min 29 s
Description: Is your school or workplace divided between the "creatives" versus the practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)

David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence

How to build your creative confidence

Is your school or workplace divided between the "creatives" versus the practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)

Many people lose their sense of creativity after a single harsh comment or discouraging experience, often as early as childhood. Fear of judgment causes even successful adults to avoid creative challenges, believing they simply lack the creative gene. Yet evidence shows that, through guided mastery—step-by-step exposure and small wins—anyone can reawaken creative abilities. For example, redesigning a frightening MRI experience for children transformed both patient outcomes and the designer’s sense of purpose.