Creativity is at the top of our basic human needs and is a natural expression of our species that has been repressed to our own detriment. Creativity Roots is an exploration of our extraordinary capacity to be creative; a movement to rediscover our natural ability to innovate. We will do this by demystifying creativity, expanding our understanding of ourselves and embracing our own potential to innovate.
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Cultural Appropriation - Creativity Roots - S3E28
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Creativity Roots - Episode 28 by Ronald Paredes Cultural appropriation its a controversy in its own term, culture doesn’t belong to anyone, it doesn’t have intellectual property so it can not be appropriated. Culture is an ever-changing and developing entity in which we are all born, raised, and assimilated. Cultures or aspects of culture being rei…
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Evaluating Our Cultures - Creativity Roots - S3E27
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Creativity Roots - Episode 27 by Ronald Paredes Cultures are alive entities that evolve, adapt, mature, and change with time. It is important not only to study, understand and preserve our cultures but also to abolish some of the practices and behaviors that do not correspond with our times and with the state of our human evolution as modern and de…
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Conversation with Brendan Davis - Creativity Roots - S3E26
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Creativity Roots - Episode 26 by Ronald Paredes Brendan Davis is a filmmaker, producer, consultant, and prolific podcaster with three active podcasts, Big Fish in The Middle Kingdom, How China Works, and If I Knew You Better, additionally he is involved in current film projects which includes three movies and in the creation process of a TV series …
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Labor Day Episode - Follow Your Own Path - Creativity Roots - S3E25
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Creativity Roots - Episode 25 by Ronald Paredes It is terrible to spend your entire life frustrated stuck in a job that doesn’t motivate you only to wake up at 50 years old to find out that you have wasted your entire life and you don’t even know who you are and what you really want to do with your life. This episode it’s a Labor Day tribute to all…
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Interview with Ronald Paredes - Co-release by Brendan Davis
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Creativity Roots - Episode 24 by Brendan Davis / Ronald Paredes This is a co-release of an interview to me by Brendan Davis with the title “RONALD PAREDES | Floating in Uncertain Waters” originally posted on his podcasts “If I knew You Better” and “Big Fish In The Middle Kingdom” where we talk about my career as an artist/designer and my current li…
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Change Happens Within - Creativity Roots - S3E23
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Creativity Roots - Episode 23 by Ronald Paredes Note: For those listeners located in mainland China the podcast is accessible by using a VPN connection. The first quarter of 2020 has been completely overtaken by the COVID-19 pandemic that took us all by surprise, disrupted our lives and created an economic crisis like we probably have never seen be…
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Conversation with Stephanie Fuccio - Creativity Roots - S2E22
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Creativity Roots - Episode 22 by Ronald Paredes Stephanie Fuccio is a fellow podcaster, but not an ordinary one. She has made of her passion for podcasting, communication, connectivity, culture, and education an amazing mix that is already touching and influencing those who follow and listen to her with engaging, interesting and I might add, a cont…
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Conversation with Alëna Olasyuk - Creativity Roots - S2E21
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Alëna Olasyuk is an Ukrainian artist who lives and works in Beijing. She graduated from the Arts College in Khmelnytsky city and later complementing her studies at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology where she obtained degrees in arts and media. Since then she has been working with a variety of mediums, such as oil paintings, ink on paper, …
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Conversation with Yolanda Vom Hagen - Creativity Roots - S2E20
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Creativity Roots - Episode 20 by Ronald Paredes I first met Yolanda through a social media art group when she was making a call for volunteers to participate in one of her photography projects. The first time I met her in person the first impression is this very tall and slender, beautiful and unpretentious woman, then I got to talk to her and I wa…
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Love Induced Creativity - Creativity Roots - S2E19
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Creativity Roots - Episode 19 by Ronald Paredes Note: For those listeners located in mainland China the podcast is accessible by using a VPN connection. At the moment of recording this podcast, we are celebrating Valentine’s Day and what a perfect day to think about the effects that love have on us, especially when it comes to creativity, what is i…
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Creativity Roots - Episode 18 by Ronald Paredes After a year that closed with struggles that prevented me from producing the podcast regularly, The Creativity Roots Podcast is back with a season 2. It was difficult, but the year ended up well, with a lot of work and interesting projects that kept me extremely busy. A lot of learning, and a lot of n…
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Falling Victims of Ignorance - Creativity Roots - S1E16
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Creativity Roots - Episode 16 by Ronald ParedesAfter all the tragic events that keep happening under our noses I can’t help to think that we have failed to ourselves, we have fallen victims of our own ignorance, our lack of education, our incapacity to sustain all the social battles that we fought and won in the past, because of our bad choices. So…
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Reflections on Education - Creativity Roots - S1E15
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Creativity Roots - Episode 15 by Ronald ParedesIn this episode I reflect on my own experience teaching to a group of highly unmotivated and disengaged group of high school students who have turned this way by being enclosed for several years in sterile classrooms, under an educational regime the stifle their creativity and forced them to fit into s…
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Don't Chase Fame - Creativity Roots - S1E14
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Creativity Roots - Episode 14 by Ronald ParedesLike money, fame should never be the purpose for doing anything in life, since the arrival of the internet the idea of fame has completely changed, everybody with a camera and an outrageous behavior now have the chance to become famous by simply pulling pranks on people or making some stupid challenges…
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Building on Criticism - Creativity Roots - S1E13
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Creativity Roots - Episode 13 by Ronald ParedesHave you ever being so afraid of being judged or criticized?Criticism is one of the biggest inhibitors that creators and pretty much everybody face, every single person in this planet experienced it constantly, it can completely restrain you from expressing your ideas regardless of how well you do, in …
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Celebrating International Podcast Day - Creativity Roots - S1E12
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Creativity Roots - Episode 12 by Ronald ParedesToday is September 30th, and we are celebrating #InternationalPodcastDay. It is a good day to think about the reasons why we started podcasting, obviously we all have something we think is worth saying, maybe we feel that we represent a group of people with some specific need or maybe some of us just w…
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Chef Nino Scordo - Creativity Roots - S1E11
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Creativity Roots - Episode 11 by Ronald ParedesChef Nino at the Pacific Restaurant at the Jinling Hotel in Nanjing is without a question one of the most interesting people I have met in all my years in China, his approach to producing menus, creating dishes and serving is very unique, he enjoys creating an entire experience where all the senses are…
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Summary on Identity - Creativity Roots - S1E10
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Creativity Roots - Episode 10 by Ronald ParedesNote: For those listeners located in mainland China the podcast is accessible by using a VPN connection.Given the importance of developing a sense of identity I feel is necessary to summarize the topic and emphasize some important information about it.I mention an experiment about isolation called "In …
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Benj Kinenga Mushila - Creativity Roots - S1E9
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Creativity Roots - Episode 9 by Ronald ParedesConversation with Benj Kinenga Mushila, Congolese visual artist and painterCheck the Creativity Roots website www.creativityroots.com for more information about Benj Kinenga Mushila and his work.Originally from the Republic of Congo, Benj Kinenga Mushila is a visual artist who regardless of his young ag…
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What is your Identity - Creativity Roots - S1E8
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Creativity Roots - Episode 8 by Ronald ParedesIdentity is probably the most important aspect of an individual, it is what helps us identify ourselves with the different social groups we interact with, giving us a sense of belonging. Knowing who are, where we come from, having a strong sense of identity can help us to be more social adaptable. Lack …
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Sabine Ichikawa Ph.D. - Creativity Roots - S1E7
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Creativity Roots - Episode 7 by Ronald ParedesConversation with Sabine Ichikawa Ph.D., researcher, conference speaker, developer of programs in luxury and creative industries in Europe & Asia, currently living and working in Shanghai for the last six years.Currently, Sabine Ichikawa is working on a research that focuses on identifying the resources…
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Summary Episode 1-5 - Creativity Roots - S1E6
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Creativity Roots Summary Episode 1-5 by Ronald ParedesAfter reaching the episode number 5 I wanted to make a summary of the topic we touched in the previous episodes to remind ourselves of those things that we know so well but we tend to take for granted, also for those who are landing into this thing and are starting to listen they will find in th…
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Define Your Success - Creativity Roots - S1E5
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Creativity Roots - Episode 5 - hosted by Ronald ParedesSuccess is one of the most difficult and challenging aspects of our life. There are external factors that pretend to enforce on us an idea of success that is confusing and wrong, family, friends, partners, society, in general, make us believe that success is determined by wealth, possessions, f…
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Embracing Failure - Creativity Roots - S1E4
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Failure can be either a perception or an attitude and it only happens in our brain and later it manifest in our life. We must understand how failure was first implanted in our mind as a concept at a very early age, how it works in our perception and how the fear of it is one of the first and strongest creativity inhibitors. To overcome the fear of …
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Brain Gymnastics - Creativity Roots - S1E3
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Creativity Roots - Episode 3 - hosted by Ronald ParedesI closed the previous episode with the claim that creativity makes us better human beings, which sounds a lot like self-help voodoo, since that’s not what we are doing here, in this episode we talk about what is the process taking place in our brain when we start engaging with creative work. I …
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Creativity it's a Human Need - Creativity Roots - S1E2
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I can not think of a better way to start making the case of creativity being not only an essential part of our existence but in fact a human need, than talking about Maslow and his pyramid of human needs.The American psychologist Abraham Maslow created what is called the Maslow Pyramid of Human Needs in which he identifies the basic human necessiti…
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The Creativity Roots Podcast hosted by Ronald Paredes - Episode 1I wanted to start by giving a brief introduction about who I am, what I have been doing as a professional creative and my motivations behind hosting a creativity podcast. The idea of sharing my experience and information working as a creative in a way that is palatable and easy to und…
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