recommend via Jeff Brazil (thank you sir)
- genius is an innocent casualty in society's efforts to train children away from natural-born foolishness.
- set aside the herd longing for security of sameness
- it's not the business of authority figures to validate genius, because genius threatens authority.
- orbiting - is not being sucked in to corporate normalcy, etc.. it is
- responsible creativity: vigorously exploring and operating beyond the hairball of the corporate mind set, beyond "accepted models, patterns, or standards" - all the while remaining connected to the spirit of the corporate mission.
- to be of optimum value to the corporate endeavor, you must invest enough individuality to counteract the pull of corporate gravity, but not so much that you escape that pull altogether.
- finagle your way..
- invisible leadership on a crew of zanies
- travel paths related to the system but not of the system
- a never ending emptiness filled with opportunities to become lost and to grow
- i hunger for the comfort that can come from devotion to herd wisdom. yet, at the same time, i remain desperate to flee the soul-wilting thatch of society's rules and standards and fly to the mor uncertain but broader possibilities of living originally.
- meeting life with an exuberance that befits humanity
- orbiting is following your bliss
- if you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. joseph campbell, the power of myth
- cultural seduction - if we work hard/long enough... we'll be found valuable/loveable, turn your back on the overwork as an end in itself game, and instead, enlist the hidden genius within you and develop the skills to play like a champion
- a management obsessed with productivity usually has little patience for the quiet time essential to profound creativity.
- we need courage to respond successfully to the consequences of exploring beyond authorities sometimes beneficial sometimes detrimental boundaries...we must explore, but we must be courageous to admit impasse... and the need for help
- what it was all about was nonlinearity [nonlinearity goes chaotic, it is groping.. not replicable, otherwise it becomes linear.. rote]
- rote has nothing to do with creativity
- organizational entropy [entropy: degradation of matter and energy to an ultimate state of inert uniformity]
- container - most widely used invention.. too widely used... today we put everything in containers, even people, even ourselves.
- contained in a box called job description. we must find the grace to learn to dance together.
- many of us choose security over freedom
- mandatory fun - result, is a discomfort that everyone feels but no one acknowledges - obligatory happiness
- when one of us finds courage to risk growth.. others are afraid that means they will have to too, shaming is a way to hold others back, teasing a seemingly nice way to shame and hold back (roger martin again)
- help the bureaucrat discover a means
- paradox - exploit the absurdities, embrace the enigmas, revel in the powers of paradox
- masks cause little deaths - little soul deaths
- our models are like headlights of a car. whatever illuminated becomes our truth and we organize our life around it. but this light we create can also blind us
- liberation through speaking personal truths
- not trying to change hairballs, but offer to midwife out of hairballs anyone who longs for a full
- orville wright did not have a pilot's license
- creativity is shy - look at it ...and it vanishes
- since you can't focus on it - you can't measure it.. it is invisible and elusive must release from the obsession of quantifying everything..- value the unmeasureable
- culturally appropriate but functionally inappropriate
- give permission to escape
- compassionate emptiness - nonjudgmental receiving - when i stopped interfering with their process... they would come up with solutions of their own.. and both would leave better off.. they feeling heard.. me not feeling helpless
- more about dynamic following that dynamic leading
- to be free.. must learn to let go.. stop clinging
be you.. don't follow the paint by numbers society is urging you to take.. without question.
only you can paint your masterpiece.
oh my.
grazie Gordon MacKenzie..
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