An Encore with Ed Catmull and Pixar-Unleashing Creativity

Ed Catmull, president of Disney Animation and Pixar, has written a new creativity book that is lighting a fire.

I have nothing to add to Tavis Smiley's wonderful interview with Dr. Catmull, but I would like to highlight a phrase that Catmull uses near the end:  "In spite of the words we use..."

Catmull touches on something here - we give lip service to the idea of making it safe for risk and failure, but most of us fail to live it.  We need to live our words.

Give yourself the gift of fourteen minutes of interview time.  You, your students, and the fine arts profession will be the better for it.

http://www.pixarpost.com/2014/05/ed-catmulls-pbs-interview-with-tavis.html

References:

Catmull, E. and Wallace, A. (2014). Creativity, inc.: Overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration. New York, NY: Random House.