On the C-SPAN Networks: Tim Harford is an Author with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2005 Forum as a Columnist for Economics in the Financial Times. The year ...

That was a question author and friend of the show Tim Harford recently posed in his column for the Financial Times. So we decided to run with this thought experiment, too.

What if multitasking is a key to creativity, rather than a bad habit? Tim Harford explains how great minds like Darwin and Einstein multitasked for decades to unlock their biggest ideas.

How can a broken piano, an ugly font, or a disrupted commute spark creativity? Tim Harford explores what happens when we allow obstacles to fuel our creativity instead of hindering it.