I had a few ideas I thought of writing but I have not fleshed them out. It is just one of those days where writing a blog is a bit tough to come by. So I decided to just write for writing sake. It might not be coherent, but sometimes it is better to keep at something even if it doesn’t immediately make sense. A lot of writers also say that to find true gold in writing you have to write a lot of garbage. I think that may be the truth.
There is something nice about just letting my mind wonder on this page. We are so often calculating and linear that we do not allow the other side of our brain to get involved in the messes of life. Every problem is answered by an equation because human reason is supreme. We abhor the creative because it is risky. We do not know what might come. It may be something that moves us or something that shocks; it may be something depressing or something wonderful. Creativity is like that: it is risky but wonderful. It can make connections and create space in a world that mere equations and human rational often overlook.
But creativity is also rational. It’s interpretive and charged with meaning. Even as I let my mind wonder I still have to properly articulate using reasonable grammar and writing rules, which assist in making my thoughts coherent. So creativity is more alive when it has constraints—when there are fences. Yet, creativity pounds upon those constraints hoping to push them back a little. So creativity enjoys chaos. At least this is what the entrepreneur would believe. He or she can find opportunity in the chaos. How many great businesses, stories, paintings, murals, or plays came amidst the lingering cloud of disorder?
So creativity is free within its boundaries; rational but maybe not linear; opportunistic amidst chaos.
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