Elizabeth Gilbert and Sir Ken Robinson

Elizabeth Gilbert is an American writer, who has a very comedic, and somewhat lighthearted outlook on life. Her concepts on the creative mind are quite accurate, stating that the assumption that creativity and suffering are somehow inherently linked is a dangerous one. She promotes separating the creative genius from the human artist, as to remove the pressure and responsibility from their work. Which both prevents narcissism and failure. She has a view in which individuals are afraid to be wrong, afraid of failure.

While, Sir Ken Robinson, a British author, although similarly comedic, has a more humanistic approach stating that humans are not using their talents to the best of their ability, but are in fact, becoming educated out of being creative. Not separating creativity from the human, but trying to unite it in a more functional and beneficial way. He does not value what education does to one's creative nature, and calls for an education revolution, not evolution. He wants people to prepared to be wrong, not be afraid of being wrong, because mistakes is where true creativity comes from. He suggests several inhibitors of creativity:

-> Fear of making mistakes

-> Admiring logic too much

-> Avoiding ambiguity

-> Wanting to be practical

-> Thinking play is frivolous

-> Thinking thats not my area

-> Not wanting to be foolish

-> Deciding you are just not creative