Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 49
In the most recent episode of ‘Exploring your Creative Genius’ I shared a collection of stories that each illuminated a core, or fun, creative concept.
Recently this has become one of my favorite stories to tell:
An Illinois corn farmer grew such an extraordinary sweet corn crop that for 10 years in a row he won the grand prize at the State Fair. That caught the attention of a journalist who arranged to interview the farmer about his success and he was happy to share the secret.
“After every corn harvest I collect my finest seed corn and I give some to each of the farmers whose corn fields share boundaries with mine.”
The journalist was surprised. “What? Aren’t you competing with them? Why would you give them your best seed corn?”
“Sure, I compete with them. But you got to understand. When the corn begins to pollinate and the winds blow and the breeze stirs then the pollen from their corn drifts into my fields and cross pollinates with my corn. I want to make sure their corn crop is high quality so when that happens it improves my own.”
Amen to the underlying truth of Common Wealth that is displayed here.
The story I shared about the full grown Indian elephant that is being controlled by just a flimsy rope, one end tied around a hind leg, the other attached to a wooden stake in the ground.
An observer shares his surprise with the elephant’s handler for clearly the massive creature was strong enough to break free should he try.
The handler responded. “What happened was when he was very young the rope and stake were strong enough to keep him under control. And as he got older and older it hasn’t dawned on him to test it again.”
That’s a good one, yeah, that reminds us to re-examine the old truths of our lives, especially the ones that are holding us back from our full growth and expression of our glory.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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