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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master - that’s all.”
– Through the looking glass, Lewis Carroll
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How to unleash your creativity
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
We all have tremendous creativity within us. In fact, we are born creative and spontaneous - just look at kids and you see how many crazy ways they can think up just to get what they want. A kid laughs, talks and behaves spontaneously as he wishes without feeling any inhibition or caring about “should-do’s” and “should-not-do’s” like adults.
As we grow older, we are tainted by social programming and lose the creativity and spontaneity that belongs to us all. How do we reclaim and rediscover our inborn genius ?
Firstly, you have to immerse yourself totally in your area of interest. Secondly, you have to read as widely as possible on all other topics which are not within your area of interest.
I learnt this from Jay Abraham, one of the top marketing gurus in the States. I heard him speak at a seminar and was impressed. He was focused and intense, apparently in a state of flow. Although he claimed that he suffers from attention deficit, I guess it was meant to be a joke. If you have experienced “flow”, you will know that it is a highly focused state of mind. The person is so focused on the topic at hand that he will sometimes forget the less important things. It is the state of optimum performance where one immerses totally in the topic. Most people don’t experience flow, because their minds are often scattered and distracted.
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