Ideasicle Podcast

This month we’re taking an about face from last month. Last month we talked to Dr. Sean McDonough about whether creativity was divine and how it was part of god’s plan. This month we are going to talk about the movie Old School, with the screenplay writer himself, Court Crandall. But Court is much more than the writer of Old School. A creative director, director, writer of a children's book, and a dad. This guy, I was delighted to find out, knows a thing or two about creativity. Show Notes: We start at Court's beginning, his childhood. How his dad's creativity (he was also in advertising) influenced Court's creative abilities. He uses his children's book "Hugville" as an example of his own flavor of creativity, which he describes as "problem solving." We talk about learned helplessness and how it can defeat creativity if we let it. I ask Court flat out - what is creativity? And I get an answer I hadn't heard before. We discuss the childhood effects of the democratization of production tools - lik