Creative Constraints
Limits can increase creativity by making familiar approaches unusable and forcing exploration of new patterns.
Episodes that teach this
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Why Creativity Peaks Inside the Box | Future IQ
· explained at 7:05
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when you put in a constraint, suddenly you notice that most of the patterns don't work.
Examples & generalisations
Concrete examples: Subrato Mitra inventing bounce lighting to recreate daylight indoors during monsoonStar Trek using teleportation because spaceship-landing scenes were too expensiveKeith Jarrett adapting his improvisation to a defective pianoIKEA developing flat-pack furniture to reduce shipping costs