Replying to LO31020 --
CGCMIke@aol.com writes:
> I have been quiet on the list for a while, but as usual insights from
> At reel me into the arena once more. I love imagination!
> Unfortunately, for imagination to join reality, it takes much
> work......at least that is how it works for me. The insights, depth
> of thought and previous readings (study) that a number of people in
> this forum have...... is always impressive.
Michael,
You gave some good examples. Here are some more:
When I was in high school journalism class, I heard a well-respected,
satirical columnist for my home-town newspaper say that writing was
_hard_ work. When the words flowed easily, he knew his writing wasn't
worth anything. It was only when he was struggling and rewriting that
he could produce the seemingly light satire readers enjoyed.
I worked for a manager once who was allergic to "dry runs" in advance
of presentations. He claimed to do all of his presentations off the
cuff, and he'd say he'd purposefully do a different presentation in
the live event from the dry run if he were ever forced into doing dry
runs. As he was arguably the best at doing business presentations
that we had, he mostly got his way.
After working with him for a while, I noticed that he was indeed
doing dry runs perpetually. When he would talk with people around
the coffee pot, when he would walk out to the parking lot with
people at night, whenever he'd be talking with people, he'd be
listening to others and talking about the big issues that concerned
him. Each of those informal conversations was a dry run for the
very creative formal business presentations he made.
If I want to foster my creativity, I find walking to be excellent. I
start with hard work, and then I take a break to take a walk. I might
well drop a pencil and pad of paper in my pocket for the ideas that
come to me. I take inspiration from perhaps the original in this
regard:
http://www.heidelberg-reisefuehrer.de/html/heidelberg_philosophenweg.html.
Bill
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