Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?

flamemage17 Says:

Oct 4, 2011 - Btw has anyone else noticed, that she gave a presentation of 20+ minutes while continually talking, without having a presentation paper or the powerpoint having any sufficient amount of text to remember text for? Pretty impressive right? Perhaps now the critics will see that creativity/randomness is pretty associative with memory and other skill as well ;)

runisunke Says:

Oct 28, 2011 - Amy Tan is a full rounded RACE TRAITOR. When the Time of Cleansing come, She will be the First one taken care of.

crudhousefull Says:

Nov 2, 2011 - Finally an honest writer. I find it so funny when people's egos get inflated because of something they wrote. Thoughts come naturally with very little to do with the vessel. Good for you

RicRagsLive Says:

Nov 3, 2011 - Thanks for the great reply to my comment! I feel the same way. I am a guy who writes. I would love for what I write to be well received by a large group of people. But I really can't say that it is because of some special creativity I have that everyone else doesn't have. It comes from empty space and I think anyone can tap into that. JK rowling was a bum on welfare and she wrote Harry potter. hehe

crudhousefull Says:

Nov 4, 2011 - Well...people like Dostoyevsky (sure I spelt that wrong) and Tolstoy were very candid and honest about how they viewed the world and they were really well received. You're honest, so you're starting off on the right track I'm guessing. Wow I didn't know that about JK Rowling. Being a bum does increase your brain activity lol, so does meditation etc. I'd like to write (did a bit of writing a while back), but I need to increase my vocabulary again. The corporate world sucks

RicRagsLive Says:

Nov 4, 2011 - Meditation is excellent. Although I always got the impression that it gives you the ability to decrease your mental noise and connect to something bigger than yourself. Maybe that's where all of this creativity comes from in the first place? I don't think there is anything wrong with recognizing your own talents but bragging or getting wrapped up in them as if they are actually serious I do think is a little silly.

crudhousefull Says:

Nov 5, 2011 - Meditating gets you to understand your own insignificance really lol. From the way you said that I take it that you've done a bit of it yourself. There's three different kinds: insight, concentration and loving-kindness. I've done quite a bit of it the past 6 months. You've hit the nail on the head by saying that it decreases mental noise. You get to observe all mental and external phenomena with great concentration and that increases your understanding of everything

RicRagsLive Says:

Nov 5, 2011 - Yes I've meditated every day for the past 5 years. What I have enjoyed about it is it begins to take shape in your day to day life. What I mean to say is you can see things differently even when your eyes are open not just during the meditation. The labels and conceptualizations of meditation can drop away and you are left with stillness and space. I hope you are having a great day!

crudhousefull Says:

Nov 6, 2011 - I've actually been meditating off and on for the past 15 years, and been to a couple of retreats where you don't even speak for the duration of the stay. What you are experiencing superb, but that state of contentment and happiness is one of the traps of meditation. It's a temporary point that stunts the speed to whatever we might perceive as enlightenment. It's great if you're working and you don't have too much time for contemplation, dangerous because it's addictive

RicRagsLive Says:

Nov 6, 2011 - I find that as well. pretty much any experience during meditation is a double edged sword. You need to have them to move forward but you cannot become attached to any of them. it's not really about experience on the level of mind. It's not really about anything at all. Although I do believe it is all important in the process of letting go.

crudhousefull Says:

Nov 6, 2011 - I'm not going to attempt to give any more advice lol, you seem to be pretty aware of what's going on. Real nice meeting people on the net that meditate though (just as in real life), gives me such hope for humanity...though usually I'm depressed at the potential outcomes in a hundred years.

RicRagsLive Says:

Nov 7, 2011 - Your advice was good so don't sell yourself short. I really don't know much. I just like to write comments on youtube. hehe Don't be depressed. It's something I learned in a boxing class. Don't waste time with negative reactions. (I was frustrated that I screwed up the combination and made a growling noise, when I did the teachers punched me.) The negative reaction left me wide open for more problems and it didn't help me do better. Every moment is perfect exactly the way it is.

crudhousefull Says:

Nov 7, 2011 - So very very true. I was waiting for you to catch the fact that I haven't been meditating for the past couple of months lol. Meditate just once and you reach the equillibrium point and stay there for at least two or three days in my experience. Main plan today is to meditate. First day is the hardest after stopping for awhile. Sort of like working out huh? So impressive that you boxed. I remember karate as a kid and a Tae Kwon Do girl broke my leg LOL

RicRagsLive Says:

Nov 8, 2011 - Sometimes you take hits that's for sure. can't help injuries in martial arts. But I guess it's what you do with yourself after.

ajthrax1 Says:

Nov 27, 2011 - no it simply reflects the weakness of her argument..

artregeous Says:

Dec 28, 2011 - opium wars true victory for the new world order is dehumanization of chinese culture she is s child of a mom left 4 kids got married with a baptist minister come to usa and raised her with such intellectual morals to be a teacher of americans lol bazurkleys production of sophizm Greek σόφισμα, sophisma, from σοφίζω, sophizo "I am wise"; confer σοφιστής, sophistēs, meaning "wise-ist, one who does wisdom, one who makes a business out of wisdom lol

ArthurMaritime Says:

Dec 31, 2011 - Amy, stick with books, you are not a strong intellectual. You reign at The Book Passage in the order of the mew. Authors like you and Elizabeth Gilbert who grew up and live in a bubble really can't espouse a deep truth. Thank god, you will be quoting my new book for years to come. It will be a little more accurate about creativity. Of course, your example isn't hard to top.

MrMovieSound Says:

Jan 11, 2012 - IT HIDES IN MY CHANNEL MRMOVIESOUND.. PLEASE CHECK IT OUT

AliBanana1493 Says:

Jan 18, 2012 - Very very interesting. I'm definitely going to read some of her works now..

FM897 Says:

Feb 18, 2012 - I genuinely think she has some very good insights, but I find her presentation to be somewhat unclear, incoherent, and rather ineffective overall. She didn't sell me. She is also difficult to follow because she speaks without pause or any vocal fluctuations, and throws in too many biographical side comments and jokes. I found her presentation style to distract from what she is actually saying. However, this video and its comments have piqued my interest enough to look into her work.

indravideos Says:

Feb 27, 2012 - Where does creativity hide? Definitely not in this video. Better off watching Never Ending Story to find out "The Nothing". She reveals her influences, but doesn't influence any creative juices in me from just within her herself. Sounds like she doesn't create something from nothing. She finds places and things to write about. The guy stacking rocks & the ghost riders they were more interesting then her. She should've shared her B- story instead of downplaying her family and ancestors heritage.

kosmotropics Says:

Apr 2, 2012 - this sums up my entire philosophy of life.

kosmotropics Says:

Apr 2, 2012 - i found her entire speech mirrored my life in a very direct way, while being general enough to apply to anyone. i suppose if you aren't creative in the same type of way, and you aren't asking the same questions that she is asking, then you are creating for entirely different reasons and that's why you aren't going to get anything out of it. if you create for a sense of purity or self expression, then hearing someone talk about transcending cultural barriers isn't going to resonate with you.