How craving attention makes you less creative | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | TED Talk

If social media is starting to get in the way of your creativity, productivity and goals, the TED Talk “How craving attention makes you less creative” may offer some helpful solutions. In this video, television and film actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt talks about his experience with social media addiction and reflects on how trying to gain followers and likes ended up leaving him feeling inadequate and, ultimately, less creative. In a refreshingly honest talk, Gordon-Levitt explores how the attention-driven model of big tech companies impacts our creativity and offers insight on how focus and collaboration can help ground us when we find ourselves looking for attention online.