John Cleese on Creativity

This is a takeout from a lecture with John Cleese, where he describes the process of creativity, and the tools which will help you get to that mental state. I really recommend taking the 13 minutes it takes to watch this presentation. There you will hear things like:

It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent, than to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking.

and

Don’t decide until you absolutely have to. Give the mind as long as possible to come up with an original idea.