originality

Creative Relationships

by Brian on 11-28-2009

in art,creativity,education

Jotted this down just before falling asleep last night: As opposed to someone who thinks along conventional lines, someone who is genuinely creative constantly and actively looks for potential complementarity in everyone they meet — not just asking “who is this person and “what have they done,” but digging deeper to ask “what potential is there [...]

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A Rhetorical Quest(ion)

by Brian on 11-07-2007

in general

What if someone tried to make a genuinely original contribution to the way we see and think about ideas? How might the rest of us recognize such genuine originality amidst the crowds of people rhetorically posing as original? What are all of us (together and as individuals) hoping to accomplish here?… traffic and subscribers? attention? [...]

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