creativity

10 Years On…

A lot of people know about my work through my talks at the TED conference, and especially the first one, in 2006, ‘Do Schools Kill Creativity?’ At 41 million views and counting it is still the most viewed talk in TED’s history.  A couple of years ago, I was at a university in the mid-West of America to give a speech to students. Over lunch, one of the faculty said, “You’ve been at this a long time, haven’t you?” “What’s that?” I asked. “Trying to transform education,” he said.

NPR/TED Radio Hour: How Do Schools Kill Creativity?

I really enjoyed recording this interview for the recent TED Radio Hour on NPR on creativity. I’m particularly delighted that Dame Gillian Lynn is in the piece too retelling with me the story of her discovery as a child that she wasn’t ‘sick’, she was a dancer.
Click here to listen.
The full program also features  interviews with Sting, Elizabeth Gilbert and Charles Limb.