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Philippe Petit
Author, “Creativity: The Perfect Crime”
Philippe Petit has performed on the high wire more than eighty times around the world. He is famous for his 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Petit is also a magician, street juggler, visual artist, builder, lecturer, and writer. He is the author and illustrator of several books, including To Reach the Clouds, the basis of the 2009 Academy Award–winning documentary Man on Wire.
Petit's latest book is titled Creativity: The Perfect Crimes. His World Trade Center act is the subject of the 2015 biographical film The Walk directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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High-wire artist Philippe Petit explains how to practice creativity while sleeping.
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High-wire artist Philippe Petit describes his process of compressing chaos in order to build a model for creative output.
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How to you inspire people? How do you touch an audience? High-wire artist Philippe Petit explains the secret is to not try at all. Instead, be yourself.
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High-wire artist Philippe Petit, who four decades ago performed illegally between the World Trade Center towers, explains how his personal brand of outlaw creativity can be harnessed to inspire and solve problems.