!["Note: I'm using the term 'Genius' here in the sense in which it is defined in Elizabeth Gilbert's 2009 TED talk. I highly recommend listening to the talk in its entirety, especially if you work in a creative field, but for the TLDR sensibility, the gist is that in 'Ancient Greece & ancient Rome...people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings,' but rather that it, 'was this divine attendant spirit that came to [them] from some distant & unknowable source, distant & unknowable reasons. The Greeks famously called these divine attendant spirits of creativity 'damons',' while the Romans, 'called that sort of disembodied creative spirit a genius." ~ ALLISON: "So you get that important email you were trying to write sent?" TEDDY: "I accidentally designed a decorative mask instead!"](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITXxy8qyYzGyXnYr1QSLjOavdfF4094kthEDJnZzgOMWiZCl3ou-eLwWrsBOpRFq6BpFaDdns7RuL7fCkZSKmYwqCpm7YWnzJwx93-40dYJt_DZ5mgT9QTKnTA_hAQnmE4Y1TxQdSo60l/s1600/CPPGeniusEdition.jpg "Crafts People Problems: Genuis Edition") |
| My rationality & common sense: "All right let's just get this over with! Not even too bad, just need to hunker down and be productive for one quick burst..." Scumbag creativity genius: "WHAT IF YOU HAD AN EYE, BUT WITH A G-CLEFT AS IT'S IRIS? WHAT WOULD THAT MOTIF LOOK LIKE PLAYED OUT!!!" |
It is gonna be a really cool mask, though!..
...and the TED link: https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius
...but also a little bit of just this...
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