Harvard i-lab | Increasing Your Creative Capacity

You know, I see the whole world as a gallery.

Every human being to me is a work of art.

You've got your realists, very predictable.

Every day, same thing, do it all together, see? You always know where they're gonna be.

They eat lunch at the same place.

Their schedule's the same.

That's your realist.

And then you have your Dada, see, Dadaists.

[laughs] That was a, that was a, a, a work, a period of art in the 1919s, '20s, and it was the, the guys that were revolting.

They, they used art to revolt against the war, World War I.

And we've got Dadaists.

They're the ones that run for office.

They carry the signs.

They got the causes.

Then you got the surrealists.

They walk around, and they have dreams, and they're thinking.

They're constantly thinking and trying to connect odd things.

Uh, you, the minimalists wear the same clothes every day.

Pretty much less is more.

They're fine.

Then you got the pop artists, always have the, you know, the upt- uh, everything that's, you know, in for the day, you know? They always have the...

God, they're just ahead of the game with their technology and their shoes and their shirts.

It's just amazing.

And so if I look at people as a work of art, I'm not prejudiced.

I, I just look at them, and if somebody's a little crazy, I just go, "Oh, the abstracts.