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Nobody Panic

How to Be Creative

Nobody Panic

Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin

Education, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8933 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Can’t find your muse? Feeling uninspired? Stevie and Tessa have bags of tips to be your best creative self, whether that’s finally settling on a colour to paint your bedroom or starting that novel. Because everyone could benefit from a bit more creativity in their lives – whether you’re an artist, a lawyer or, I don’t know, a farmer. Shout out to all the farmers listening.


Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive Productions.

Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.


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0:00.0

Welcome! Hello! Hello! Come on in. Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, I'm Stevie. I'm Teza. And this is nobody panic where we help you do things that you've asked us to do.

0:24.0

Today we're doing how to be creative

0:26.3

because that was one of the suggestions

0:27.6

from Caroline from Surbiton.

0:29.8

The strong topic.

0:31.0

When I'm feeling uncreative, I often like creative tips how to get more because I think it's like an ongoing

0:37.1

process like you're not you don't like you're not like born a creative person you might have a tendency to be more creative, but you have it's something that you can't just be like,

0:46.0

oh I'm creative, so why isn't my book appeared? Or, you know? Yes, yes, yes, yes. And if you think, oh, I'm not creative, which is something that so many people say, you are. I think you just have to look at an average collection of children to see that we learn to be, to think that about ourselves. ourselves like when you give kids like some

1:04.6

paper and some colors they're just like off I go no child is ever like oh I'm

1:09.4

sorry I won't actually I'm not good enough so I don't think I can I actually work oh I'm not very good at

1:13.5

shading you know I can't draw hands they just they just draw they just a child just

1:19.2

like gives you the thing they've done today and children just like make

1:22.0

relentlessly make stuff and play as well.

1:25.1

Like kids, remember when you were at school and you played in the Wendy house when you were

1:29.4

like five and anyone was allowed to play and someone was just like I'm the dog

1:32.4

and everyone was like

1:33.2

fantastic that's great and then they were like I'm the mom you're the dad and then off we go and

1:36.8

no one was like oh I don't know if I feel I'm actually not very good

1:40.8

masculine today yeah I'm not very good at play.

1:43.0

So I'll just like, yeah, I'm in.

1:46.0

I'm in.

1:47.0

Even people who have jobs that you would say are not creative in quotation marks,

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