How To Avoid Being Creative

Creativity is a hot topic these days. Everybody is talking about it, writing about it, studying it. It’s such a pervasive topic, that it’s getting hard to avoid. But still, there’s hope: The best way I’ve found to avoid being creative is to spend all your time reading books on creativity. Here’s a video in which I explain exactly how to do that:

Here are links to books I don’t recommend in the video, but are actually really great and well worth reading:

• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
• Out Of Our Minds by Ken Robinson
• Comedy Writing Secrets by Mel Helitzer & Mark Shatz

Here’s another good one I meant to mention, but forgot:

• Stand Up Comedy: The Book by Judy Carter

I really can’t vouch for these books personally since they went back to the library unread; but they have nice covers and are probably worth a look:

• How To Have Creative Ideas by Edward de Bono
• The Creativity Formula by Amantha Imber
• Make Your Creative Dreams Real by Sark
• Cracking Creativity by Micheal Michalko
• Patterns Of Creativity by Kevin Brophy
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Comedy Writing by James Mendrinos