Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 135
In this show, I shared a series quotes from artists and thinkers that related to being creative, then added some of my thoughts. Here are a couple more. The first was too long for the radio format.
“I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem”
-Buckminster Fuller, inventor, designer, thinker
His point is a large societal one. But how about in our own lives—what once worked for us in a stressed or even emergency situation very often is not a tool we should continue to rely on.
“We can count the number of seeds in an apple but no one knows how many apples there are in a seed.”
I don’t know where this came from. I have been using it for sometime as I work to help folks become their most creative selves; it brings me comfort to embrace the truth of it.
And one more. Last month I sent my new book, ‘Common Ground for US’, to my publisher. In preparation for an upcoming show on common ground generally I found this quote.
“We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.”
That’s from Jim Wallis, a theologian, political activist, and author.
And the common ground my book identifies is most certainly us at our very best.
“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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