A creative person will sometimes seem deaf and distraught
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. So they find their way, their random combinations that are driven by forces we don’t know about. It’s through this recombination that something new may come up, not when we try to push them directly.
- Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi interviewed by Michael Toms in the New Dimensions newsletter.
Creativity and intuition are double edges of the same sword, and a particular trait of the creative individual is his ability to disappear inside his head. A creative person will sometimes seem as deaf and distraught as Beethoven when, stone deaf, he created the Ninth Symphony. Such a gift is not always endearing or recognized . . .
- John Wareham, Secrets Of A Corporate Headhunter
Below two pages from the Nurturing The Song Within Art Journal and, below that, the Diary/Planner. Both are now at printers.
You can order both here.
You can access downloadable PDFs of either by clicking on the image.
