Category: Creativity
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Retrospective 2024-43
This is a retrospective of week 43, 2024 (2024-10-14–2024-10-20). I’ve continued reading Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America by Mary C. Richards, and started reading The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner this week. Reading Steiner raises a number questions: I’ve also listened to Brian Gray’s leading thoughts from Applied Anthroposophy during the week.…
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Margaret Wheatley’s Eight Principles
I found the following eight principles in Biology Revisioned by Willis Harman and Elisabet Sahtouris. These principles are from A Simpler Way by Margaret Wheatley. Notes:1. Willis Harman & Elisabet Sahtouris, Biology Revisioned, pp. 256–58.
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Retrospective 2024-02
This is a retrospective of week 2 2024 (2024-01-08–2024-01-14). Here is the retrospective of the previous week. I’m currently reading the following books: I’ve started reading: Notes:1. See Attention as a moral Act: Iain McGilchrist and Jonathan Rowson in Conversation, YouTube, https://youtu.be/YHUGuUhB1c4. Accessed: 2024-01-14. Published: 2023-03-06.2. David Ellerman makes principled arguments against the rental of…
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Organisms must be free to choose
Why must organisms be free to choose? It’s because organisms must be free to act according to their own beinghood. It’s a foundational principle, because the cosmos itself is a free process of true and original creation. Compelled behavior is not creative. Organisms must be able to respond to the world. Skye Hirst emphasizes that:…
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Iain McGilchrist on control
The following quote is from a conversation between Iain McGilchrist and Ameer Shaheed in May 2023. It is part of a series of conversations exploring McGilchrist’s philosophy as laid out in The Matter with Things. (My emphasis in italics.) I would go so far as to say that control, which is the single value of…
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What is creativity?
Elisabeth McClure, a researcher with the LEGO foundation, questions whether children really are more creative than adults in her TEDxAarhus talk. McClure says that creativity is a combination of originality and appropriateness, and concludes that we need to combine the originality of children with the appropriateness of adults. I agree that adults and children certainly…
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New orders reflect new values
The world crumbles. New orders are emerging. Conditions are getting worse and worse. There is less and less to hold on to. There are fewer givens to assume. How to live? What to do? How to organize? The world is falling apart. Fear deepens as necessary orders are lost. Events force rapid reassessment of everything,…
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Why do I sometimes feel being used up?
Why do I sometimes feel being used up? It’s related to the exhausting world of work. I feel a need to check out at the end of the workday because I haven’t felt free during the day. By contrast, when I feel free I come alive in the same way a child comes alive when…
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Organizing reflection 25
This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to reflect on subjects occupying my mind. I make no claim to fully believe what I write. Neither do I pretend that others have not already thought or written about the same subject.…
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The fine art of shutting up
“If people do not wish to be helped, leave them alone.“ 1 “The most important thing is passion. … The passion that the person has for her own growth is the most important thing.“ 2 “Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.“ 3 “We have discovered that the miracle of the intelligence of local…