NPR/Ted Talk radio host Guy Roz interviewed the famous singer and songwriter Sting about creativity.  He asked Sting how he would define creativity.  After a little chuckle Sting replied, “For me it’s the ability to take a risk.  To actually put yourself on the line and risk ridicule, being criticized or whatever but you have an idea you think you want to put out there and you must take that risk.”   

Sting said in the interview he was able to dream a lot as a child.  He remembered working early in the morning with his father who was a milk man.  He says they did not talk much and so he was allowed to dream and he would fantasize about possible futures he might have.  He says that experience put him in the creative mode at a young age. 

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Check out the entire radio interview with Sting…http://n.pr/1RAbVBv.