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The creative process
Jerome Berryman illuminates the creative process in his book, “Godly Play: An Imaginative Approach to Religious Education”. There are so many parallels to a good DBS group and the creative process (see discovery stories. The Creative Process (pg. 94) Opening: the disruption of one’s circle of meaning A disruption may be caused by a hard or soft opening. A hard opening might be a tragic event or painfully sudden change which forces the person to re-evaluate.…
In sketching I observed it
Oh, I “remember” places I’ve been and things I’ve seen. I could tell you about sitting in a pub on Kings' Road and seeing a table of spike-haired kids starting a little fire in an ash tray with some lighter fluid. I could tell you, and you would be told, and that would be that. But in sketching it I preserved it. I had observed it. I found this was a benefit that rendered the quality of my drawings irrelevant.…
All art is cosmos
All art is cosmos, cosmos found within chaos.
We are afraid of this kind of prayer
To serve a work of art is almost identical with adoring the Master of the Universe in contemplative prayer. In contemplative prayer the saint (who knows himself to be a sinner, for none of us is whole, healed and holy twenty-four hours a day) turns inwards in what is called “the prayer of the heart,” not to find self, but to lose self in order to be found. We are afraid of this kind of prayer, we of the twentieth century Judeo-Christian tradition.…
Entrepreneurial ability is more than creativity
Entrepreneurial success cannot be predicted on the basis of the entrepreneur’s creativity. Inventiveness is not a certain indication of entrepreneurial ability. Many of the well-known inventors: Da Vinci, Newton, Einstein, were able to see what no one else could. They designed machines or proposed ideas ahead of their time, ideas that would later become billion dollar enterprises. Yet they would not be the ones to create value for their communities from the ideas they generated, neither would they capture any of the benefit for themselves.…