Like this:

OK first go and watch this: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html and this: http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html

I may be remember the content of these wrong, and I can’t wati them just now to check (which I should because I’m about to confuse ken robinson of being wrong, ish…)

well, I think that there are things happening that are leading schools toward nourishing creativity (well at least my awesome new teacher girlfriend is, many others should follow her example.) and they might have a way to go and are doing it at difference speeds but i’m optimistic that in britain we’re getting there. Hurrah! i’m all for the r/evolution (its a semantic, a revolution is just a romanticised evolution.)

However the hierarchy of subjects is a non-starter. All school subjects are of equal value, becuase you can be equally creative in any subject. I’ll just let that sink in and anyone reading this who has strong feelings about whatever school subjects they were great/keech at get their splutterings out of the way. Art and music have just as many rules as grammar and mathematics. The real divider is the judgement. There is a very exact silence about which frequences of notes react in certain ways with others, just as there are rules about 1+1. Colours too, can be measured in very specific light frequencies, even smell can be quantified. Someone somewhere theorized (maybe even proved to a degree) that bach wrote music mathematically, he certainly wrote at a prodigious rate that he certainly wasn’t being hamstringed by being right or wrong, he just did the math and it worked.

So here’s my point. I recently ran a workshop where I compared good improve to good sex. If you ask I’ll repeat it for you But I believe the philosophy of success/discovery is relevant to any field, maths, sex, music, relationship, physics, youtube virality. Exploring the concepts and rules and ceaveats and possibilities of anything means you are being creative. finding out how something works is a creative process, you try things, test things, observe the feedback you are being given. it’s all the same, it’s all a question of your own personal feedback, what does this discovery/creative/explorative process give you? Is it exciting? is it inspiring? that is where you success is. When you are free of the burden of judgement the world is your oyester, you become a toddler in a sea of toys, picking up, bashing, moving, making noises for, neglecting, mixing, all without hesitation. Could you be more content than that?

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