The Minimalists Debate Whether Creativity Is Learnable

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Home & Garden, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Leisure

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Joshua and Ryan discuss whether creativity is inherited, learned, or both. Listen to “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at patreon.com/theminimalists

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0:00.0	We are all writers now.
0:05.0	Whether you want to write a book or a blog or better text messages or emails, I want
0:11.0	to help you with a free ebook called 11 Ways to Write Better.
0:15.7	You can find that at theminimilists.com slash resources.
0:20.5	Enjoy.
0:22.3	It's creativity, learnable, and improvable.
0:28.3	If so, how do you make it natural instead of something forced?
0:33.3	Of course it has to be learnable, because when you're born, I'm thinking of Ella when
0:39.8	she was one year old.
0:41.5	She wasn't very creative.
0:43.2	I'm just created poop.
0:45.1	That was about it though, right?
0:47.2	And so, yeah, of course we learn how to be creative.
0:49.3	In fact, as kids, kids are most creative.
0:52.3	Why?
0:53.3	Because they're unfiltered.
0:55.0	And so, that's really the answer to Tom's questions here.
0:58.6	How do you make it natural?
1:00.0	You remove those filters.
1:01.2	What are the filters?
1:02.8	Filters are awesome.
1:03.8	Someone's going to judge me.
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