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TED Radio Hour

Guy's Favorites: The Source Of Creativity

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.421.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

As we transition to our new host Manoush Zomorodi, Guy Raz looks back on some of his favorite episodes over the past seven years. This episode originally aired on October 3, 2014. We want to be creative but channeling our creative impulses is no small feat. Is creativity something we are born with or can we learn it? In this hour, TED speakers examine the mystery of creativity. Guests include musician Sting, neuroscientist Charles Limb, author and educator Sir Ken Robinson, and writer Elizabeth Gilbert.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Guy here. So as some of you may have heard, there will be a new host of Ted Rady Hour,

0:05.1

which is super exciting. Her name is Manouche Summerodi, and she'll be starting in March.

0:10.0

In the meantime, I want to share some of my favorite episodes of Ted Rady Hour over the years.

0:14.9

And this one is called The Source of Creativity, and it's full of big ideas about where creativity

0:21.4

comes from and how we can all tap into it. This episode features Sting, writer Elizabeth Gilbert,

0:27.5

and Sir Ken Robinson, who still holds the record for the most popular TED Talk of all time.

0:33.1

And one final note, it also features an interview with the great British choreographer,

0:37.3

Dame Gillian Lin. Dame Gillian was 88 when I talked to her in 2014, and last year,

0:43.6

she passed away. Her story of how she got to be a dancer and how she found her creative outlet

0:48.8

in dance is so inspiring. You will love it. So here is one of my favorite episodes.

0:54.4

It's called The Source of Creativity. This is The Ted Rady Hour.

1:03.6

Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks. Ted. Ted. Technology.

1:08.4

Entertainment. Design. Design. Is that really what's 10 for us? I've never known the

1:12.5

delivered at TED conferences around the world. It's a gift of the human imagination.

1:16.1

We've had to believe in impossible things. The true nature of reality beckons

1:22.0

from just beyond those talks, those ideas adapted for radio.

1:29.2

From NPR. I'm Guy Ross. And today on the show The Source of Creativity,

1:38.4

ideas about where it comes from, why we all have it, and how to find it.

1:44.0

Hello, hello now. I just want to make sure that you can hear me.

1:48.8

I can hear you. And can you hear Guy? I can hear Guy. Hello.

1:53.0

Hi, it's Ting. How are you? Yep. Sting. Hello. Welcome. Thank you.

1:57.1

Thanks for coming in. It's a pleasure. So I was in Vancouver and saw your talk. So Sting's TED Talk

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