Creativity Requires Time

As all creative people know, creativity cannot happen when unreasonable restraints are given. This is not to say that all restrictions are bad, because restrictions, like we talked about in this post, actually help to breed creativity. Unreasonable constraints, such as ridiculously short deadlines, can cut off creativity in the process of trying to just create something. This video shows the truth of this theory, demonstrated on elementary school kids. The idea too is that your first idea, is almost always not your best idea. The first idea is the discardable literal, get-the-job-done idea. A process of trial, error, and experimentation is what creates real results, and this process takes time.