@david_epstein: The biggest myth about creativity is that it needs freedom. It doesn’t. It needs constraints. When options shrink, your brain stops repeating and starts searching. The box is not limiting you. It is forcing you to think. Check the link in my bio for more more info and links for my new book, Inside the Box, in which I share science and stories that show how constraints can make you more creative, productive, and satisfied.
That’s why limiting your core values to three makes an absolute world of difference.
2026-05-09 04:00:52
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Jules Cabigon :
Necessity is the mother of invention. We’ve known this for a while…
2026-05-09 04:10:05
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Craving Clarity :
“The sweet spot is where the genius lives.” I love that. It made me think that freedom works the same way, not at either extreme, but in consciously choosing the constraints that help us grow 🖤
2026-07-01 02:04:21
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DAM|📘📺🎮 reviews for🌈 :
Wit? Lucas had 11 MILLION DOLLARS in 1977 to make Star Wars? That’s like 60 million today.
2026-06-29 01:30:03
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Mafumofu :
is this applies also to ps1 etc. games?
2026-06-29 13:31:04
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mark3000x2 :
The financier?
2026-05-09 05:28:24
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Alphaor05🧢 :
Thank you brother for this valuable information. It's true. I normally get so many good ideas when I'm broke. Thing is as soon as I get money I totally toss those ideas out the window
2026-05-09 19:38:58
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Babylon :
Like 10 minutes before exam end your ideas flood your mind
2026-06-25 15:38:35
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Peshang Ahmed :
People get it wrong when the word “Constraint” is used, its more like “Context”. That filters what is suitably creative (designed). Check the job of a creative director. Without constraints that job doesn’t exist.
2026-06-24 10:32:39
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Thanks for sharing this
2026-06-19 06:48:00
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oussama :
Thats cant be true
2026-06-22 11:34:04
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Gregg Hinthorn :
Seems to me that it’s not actually limits but the perception of limits.
2026-05-08 19:20:44
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Robpquu683 :
This makes a lot of sense. I used to scroll TikTok across three phones because of a separate TikTok I had watched about Pixar's Three Pitches rule, but I chose to introduce new constraints by reducing my active devices down to one.
2026-05-09 08:53:15
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lance_goosen :
This is my favourite technique.
2026-05-09 03:26:55
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TheEvolveProject :
when resources shrinks, imaginations expand
2026-05-09 17:40:45
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Waheeed Riffat :
Creativity has no definition/meaning without the idea of limitation, they go hand-in-hand, so u r ABSOLUTELY right.
2026-05-09 20:35:12
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Gilmore Catubig :
thanks for this information 🔥🔥🔥
2026-05-09 01:59:04
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Ayandow Nashira Edmond :
I watch, this video, it is really worth thinking over
2026-06-17 15:03:30
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John changed :
creativity happens within the box
2026-06-17 22:02:11
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౨ৎ star :
Yes. With limits, you push your resourcefulness to the max
2026-05-28 00:49:57
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OLLEN :
Thank you brother, for sharing your content with us.
2026-06-17 14:34:01
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Nnenna Zebedee :
Interesting
2026-06-16 23:41:53
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X :
Ja Junge das sage ich seit Jahren. Art is born of struggle!!!!
2026-05-29 08:33:39
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Gabtheory :
When you corner the art it grows 🌱
2026-05-29 19:00:39
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Karen_bookworm 🇨🇦 :
I can’t wait to read this book. Your last book changed my perspective.
2026-05-09 05:12:16
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