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Stanford d.school Co-Founder George Kembel talks about "Awakening Creativity" at the Chautauqua Institution.  Watch the video here.

We tweeted highlights during the speech via @stanforddschool.  You can also read them below:

• Is creativity something that is available to all of us or is it something that some are born or gifted with?
• Creativity is a profound latent capacity available to all of us. Why does it remain dormant in so many of us?
• Can creativity be awakened?  Can it be nurtured?
• Empathy can inform the problem definition phase and prototyping can help you learn. 
• Start with empathy to gain inspiration.  See the story of the Embrace Global baby incubator as an example. Without being human-centered, they would not have come up with an incubator that looks like a sleeping bag instead of a box that plugged into a wall.  For more on Embrace Global click here. 
• Try a lot of little experiments with low resolution prototypes.
• For more on d.light design click here. 
• Vulnerability required: Preserve ambiguity longer than you are comfortable to leave room for empathy to inform problem definition.
• How can public radio innovate? The story of @DesignAgitator and @wnyc is told.
• Instead of holding on to a clear goal, hold on to a process.  This allows for innovation.
• Our first responsibility is to create the innovators, not the innovations.
• Creativity is a latent capacity available to all of us.  Design thinking can unlock it. It begins with individual transformation.
• If you focus only on innovations, you risk killing creativity. But if you focus on innovators you most likely get both.
• The dschool's K-12 Lab is bringing design thinking to K12 education.
• You don't lead by control, you lead by guiding. 
• We don't believe that creativity is something you separate from other disciplines. We bring all the disciplines together.

Congratulations George on an inspiring talk!