Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs. They throw suspension bridges across great distances. These elegant and unexpected combinations flow together beautifully in the twilight zone, where metaphor and resemblance rules in place of logic and classification.
Interpretation
Creative individuals excel at linking seemingly unrelated ideas and concepts.
This quote highlights the unique ability of highly creative individuals to draw connections between disparate ideas, allowing them to innovate and think outside conventional boundaries. It suggests that creativity transcends logical classifications, enabling unexpected pairings that can lead to profound insights and artistic expressions.
In practice
In a workshop on innovation, one might quote this to inspire participants to think outside the box.
We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.
So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.
You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?
You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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