How native speakers pronounce “creative”

about everything it freed me to enter one of the most creative periods per of my life during the next 5 years I

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Am I right? They're not frightened of being wrong. I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said this, he said that all children are born artists.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

And the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not, because the thing they were good at at school

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and that we avert some of the scenarios that we've talked about. And the only way we'll do it is by seeing our creative capacities for the richness they are

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

ticket to emotional mental and physical burnout fast you is less creative because the Richer more creative mode of thought

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fast you is less creative because the Richer more creative mode of thought that psychologists call slow thinking

Running

admin and a separate block to focus on a creative project make each time block longer than you

Slow Thinking

they're editing video, if they're doing something creative and you know, they're building some some skills in the

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

So, what’s the best position to sleep in? Sleep positions go by countless creative names— the zombie, mountain climber, free faller, and soldier—

What’s the best position to sleep in? - Rachel Marie E. Salas

Research shows that people with varied interests tend to be more creative problem solvers and more innovative. Hobbies are one of the best ways to recharge

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do. And what is it specifically about creative ventures that seems to make us really nervous about each other's mental health

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

We writers, we kind of do have that reputation, and not just writers, but creative people across all genres, it seems, have this reputation for being enormously mentally unstable.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And all you have to do is look at the very grim death count in the 20th century alone, of really magnificent creative minds who died young and often at their own hands, you know?

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

and I don't want to see it perpetuated into the next century. I think it's better if we encourage our great creative minds to live. And I definitely know that, in my case -- in my situation --

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

to see if they might have had better and saner ideas than we have about how to help creative people sort of manage the inherent emotional risks of creativity.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

The Romans had the same idea, but they called that sort of disembodied creative spirit a genius. Which is great, because the Romans did not actually think

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

Maybe go back to some more ancient understanding about the relationship between humans and the creative mystery. Maybe not.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

in terms of explaining the utter maddening capriciousness of the creative process. A process which, as anybody who has ever tried to make something --

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

So when I heard that I was like -- that's uncanny, that's exactly what my creative process is like. (Laughter)

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

(Laughter) That's not at all what my creative process is -- I'm not the pipeline! I'm a mule, and the way that I have to work

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

trying to control and manage and dominate these sort of uncontrollable creative impulses that were totally internalized.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

This is one of the most painful reconciliations to make in a creative life. But maybe it doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

all come from queer or Black culture. These words originated as a form of creative expression, independent from the straight white norms of the English language.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

But they expect to take the third resource, training data, for free. Right now, many AI companies train on creative work they haven't paid for or even asked permission to use.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

But this training, this unlicensed training on creative work, has serious negative consequences for the people behind that work.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

This is not the narrative that AI companies like to portray. We like to talk about democratization, about letting more people be creative. But the fact that AI competes with its training data is inescapable.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

saying there's no way this narrow exception can be used to legitimize the mass exploitation of creative work to create automated competitors to that work.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

a short, simple open letter, which simply reads: “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

But it doesn't have to be this way. The AI industry and the creative industries can be and should be mutually beneficial.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

when we feel constantly rushed we make more mistakes and are less creative and less productive

Slow Work

This is just a weird evening hobby of mine. My day job is as an advertising creative director. But the purpose of the channel is to ruin music.

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

Now I'm a libertarian columnist, which means I believe in progress and creative destruction. But here’s something I also believe:

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

control over your life it also offers a creative Outlet but Leisure goes deeper than that what

Leisure

But whatever it is, if we take this opportunity, we go with it, we are creative, those are the creative people. And that little stop, look, go,

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

And more than that, I'm going to argue that the creative act is a huge part in how we extinguish and put out these fires.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

but give me 15 minutes because I want to change your mind. We're living in a culture that sidelines the creative act. That says it's something for children

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

to singing, to cooking. The creative act, art is anything we do where we create something

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

This conversation is about you. Even if you don't have a creative bone in your body. I want to introduce you to someone you may already know.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

And please remember, like, you can be creative in so many different ways. No one is exempt from this conversation.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

Art isn't to be sidelined. You are inherently creative, with something very beautiful to give this world.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

(Laughter and murmuring) I will say that I think the creative spirit of humanity is an incredibly important thing,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

I also believe that we probably do need to figure out some sort of new model around the economics of creative output. I think people have been building on the creativity of others

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

in the hands of creators. I think we collectively get better creative output and people do just more amazing stuff.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

CA: From the point of view, I mean, creative people are some of the angriest people right now or the most scared people about AI.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

I think that really changes how much humanity as a whole embraces all this. SA: Well, again, I would say some creative people are very upset. Some creatives are like, "This is the most amazing tool ever,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

I think the team is key because we all have different skills, right? Like, linear thinking, the more creative thinking. And I think you’re right, it’s like, what does exist?

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

friend, how to compromise, how to explain an idea, how to be creative. If

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

an actress, a creative consultant. I would do all those things for free.

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

And yes, some of this is just a part of growing up, necessary even. But I realized the imaginative and creative forces that drove me had less and less space to thrive in my young adult life.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

When COVID hit, I started posting science videos as a creative outlet, but even then I constrained myself.

The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED · TED

We've witnessed one landmark event after another. Just a few years ago, people said that AI would never be creative. And yet AI now feels like an endless river of creativity,

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

Research says that mastery of other languages demands mastery of the mother tongue. is a prerequisite for creative expression in other languages. How?

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

has hit the spot. Something very easy, yet creative and persuasive. After that, we launched another campaign

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

So, if we can't reach space or build a rocket and so on, we can be creative. At this moment, every one of you is a creative project.

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

we can be creative. At this moment, every one of you is a creative project. Creativity in your mother tongue is the path.

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

of Yawanawa tribe in Brazil, Acre, Amazonia, in the rainforest. My mentors and heroes, Chief Nixiwaka and his creative force Putanny, who oversee their cultural preservation and ecological sanctuary.

How AI Art Could Enhance Humanity’s Collective Memory | Refik Anadol | TED · TED