5 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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0:00.0 | But I'd like to see more people creating and less people criticizing because |
0:03.3 | criticizing is pretty easy. |
0:05.3 | It's relatively easy compared to creating. |
0:07.5 | Creating is very humbling. |
0:09.1 | Your failures really end up in your face, whereas you're you're never committing to anything right you don't |
0:16.4 | clearly make mistakes and it's very comfortable place to be. The Welcome to the future podcast, a show that explores the interesting overlap between design, marketing and business. |
0:52.0 | I'm Greg Gunn. |
0:53.0 | As a species, humans are inherent copy machines. |
0:57.0 | Emulation is how we learn to walk, talk, and navigate the world. |
1:01.0 | But when it comes to ideas, especially ones we deem original, in air quotes, things are a little different. |
1:08.0 | We are hypercritical of imitation, resent anything close to a copy, and obsess over ideological ownership. |
1:16.0 | But what we don't do is turn that critical lens on ourselves. |
1:20.0 | Copy, transform, and combine. |
1:23.7 | According to our guest, this is the recipe for creativity. |
1:27.7 | He's a filmmaker, speaker, and writer, but you probably know him best from his acclaimed documentary, |
1:34.0 | Everything is a remix. And if you haven't watched it yet, please go do it as soon as you're done |
1:40.0 | listening to this episode. It'll blow your mind and maybe help you let go of that inner critic. |
1:45.9 | In the meantime, please enjoy our conversation with Kirby Ferguson. |
1:50.7 | First of all, thank you for doing this with me and I feel like this conversation is long overdue because I've watched your video. |
1:58.0 | I think back in the days of Vimia when I first saw it many, many years ago. |
2:02.0 | I was thinking, this is so... when I first saw it many many years ago. |
2:03.0 | I was thinking, this is so in alignment with what I believe. |
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