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Commencement Speeches About Creativity
Speeches on creativity make the case that imagination is a discipline, not a gift — a way of seeing and building that anyone can practice. Artists, engineers, and founders describe where ideas actually come from and how to keep making things in a world that rewards playing it safe.
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Speeches on creativity make the case that imagination is a discipline, not a gift — a way of seeing and building that anyone can practice. Artists, engineers, and founders describe where ideas actually come from and how to keep making things in a world that rewards playing it safe.
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Noubar Afeyan Massachusetts Institute of Technology / 2024 Why it belongs here He argues imagination is the foundational building block of breakthrough science and calls innovation imagination in action. This theme is central to the speech. 02 John Seely Brown Arizona State University / 2015 Why it belongs here He repeatedly urges graduates to unleash their imagination and invoke collaborative invention as the coin of the realm. This theme is central to the speech. Featured speeches
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Why it belongs here He argues imagination is the foundational building block of breakthrough science and calls innovation imagination in action.
Why it belongs here He repeatedly urges graduates to unleash their imagination and invoke collaborative invention as the coin of the realm.
Why it belongs here He describes how surrendering control in writing and directing connects us to something larger and expresses our fundamental drive to create.
Why it belongs here He argues imagination and creativity are essential to performing exceptionally, quoting Einstein that imagination takes you everywhere.
Why it belongs here He defines creativity as allowing yourself to make mistakes and art as knowing which ones to keep, drawing on his filmmaking career.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology / 2024 / Flagship Pioneering CEO and Moderna co-founder
Arizona State University / 2015 / Field: science
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Stanford University / 2004 / Field: arts
University of Wisconsin / 2003 / Field: arts
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