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Thursday, July 01, 2004An Incomplete Manifesto of Growth I love this challenging way to be creative and to grow. There is so much in it about enjoying experimenting. Here's a couple: 3. Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there. 4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day. 9. Begin anywhere. John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere. 10. Everyone is a leader. Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead. 14. Don't be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort. 23. Stand on someone's shoulders. You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better. 40. Avoid fields. Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields. [this reminds of a word someone gave me once about enjoying the large field God had given me, to keep moving out 'cos i won't even find the boundary] But read them all, it won't take long! Posted here and here. Posted by: Mark | 2:59 pm |
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