Resisting makes us creative

Last updated Aug 15, 2023

• Source:
  • Smile Indias, Sources/Interdisciplinary Approaches to Creation & Innovation - Class
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  • Cards/The limits of our language are the limits of our world

• By making us more attentive.
  • Attentiveness that does not assume that there is something ’new’ to be seen
  • Instead, it’s deeply attuned to what we were too distracted to notice in the first place
• By making us more open.
  • True openness rejects the feeling that we as individuals, with our own abilities, are enough
  • It rejects the belief that observations alone in any moment are finished
  • It rejects the eagerness to dispose the ideas the reveal themselves to us
• By making us less about the “next big thing”.
  • It encourages us to do the same things all over again, but that’s okay
  • Creativity = revising, recooping, regenerating
• By making us protective of time and space.
  • Resisting the ways the world can distract us and clutter our mind
  • Add to Cathexis 5
• By making us more receptive.
  • Culturally, we’re trained to analyze and judge too quickly, way too often. Resist against this!
• By allowing us to participate in collective imagination and collaboration.
  • NOT machinations of individual genius
  • NOT acting like self-sufficient lone wolves
• By encouraging us to view everyone —ourselves included— as diffabled.
• By encouraging us to do more of nothing.
  • More waiting > always looking for
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