{"id":2060,"date":"2018-02-11T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eho.zrs.mybluehost.me\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2021-09-28T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T10:41:57","slug":"fighting-creativitys-highest-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/fighting-creativitys-highest-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting creativity’s highest crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mathew E May says that number one killer of creative ideas is\u00a0the critic inside our heads<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s one thing to reject the ideas of others\u2026we do that almost automatically. It\u2019s quite another to reject, deny, stifle, squelch, strike, silence and otherwise put to death ideas of our own, sometimes even before they\u2019re born: it is the highest crime against creativity. This voluntary shutdown of the imagination is an act of pure mindlessness I find so tragic that I often think of it as\u00a0ideacide, because it eventually kills our natural curiosity and creative instinct.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s a well argued post, based on his new book,\u00a0Winning the Brain Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s some useful advice on how to counter that critic. In part\u00a0it’s\u00a0about finding ways to\u00a0find everything interesting again<\/em>. Instead of desperately seeking solutions, we learn to slow down and see more of what is already there, and already possible. It reminds us of our own facilitation practice of\u00a0Notice More<\/a>. In his book, May offers this mantra which resonates strongly with us:<\/p>\n

What appears to be the problem, isn\u2019t.
\nWhat appears to be the solution, isn\u2019t.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s a great reminder to pause and look for more details before rushing to judgement or action.<\/p>\n

(Photo by\u00a0Eduard Militaru<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mathew E May says that number one killer of creative ideas is\u00a0the critic inside our heads. “It\u2019s one thing to reject the ideas of others\u2026we do that almost automatically. It\u2019s quite another to reject, deny, stifle, squelch, strike, silence and otherwise put to death ideas of our own, sometimes even before they\u2019re born: it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}