I have started to put my old videos on my video site
I also listened to one... how you lose your creativity, how to get it back...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp70FuOgpI0
Brilliant. I mean the video. I like it.
I talk about how you leak your energy...
Social media, constant talking, texting, browsing, playing video games, all leak your energy.
And it is not just you, it is almost all of humanity.
Leaking your energy... none remaining for creativity, creating life, growing, being a human.
Machines running out of energy, robotic, and not knowing that you did it to yourselves.
What is near invisible, at least I could not see it for decades, is this:
On the Tree of Knowledge, by design, speed trumps everything.
Speed trumps (trumps: in card games, or reasoning: ranks above the others, takes it all, wins.) thoughtfulness, speed trumps creativity, speed even trumps doing things right.
It is hard to distinguish, because it happens so fast, and so reliably. Always.
I said: it is "By design" and I meant it.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, maybe I am. But I don"t believe that evolution, Life, our DNA wants us to behave in such self-defeating ways. Or if you are religious, I don"t believe that your god would want us to prefer speed to everything else.
You want to reduce someone to sheep? To effect?
Suggest to them that they have to do things fast, without thinking. That snappy, quick, is what constitutes winning in life, not the results. (Was it your mother, your father, your uncle who did that? Your school teacher?)
That you are supposed to know, without looking, without recognizing, maybe even without understanding the question.
This is the story of your life: you feel inferior because you don"t see without looking, you don"t understand without contemplating, and that means that you are <gasp!> SLOW! <gasp again.>
I am one of you, with the only difference that I pay attention. And, at least some of the time, I look before I leap, I contemplate before I answer.
Some of the time.
Used to be never.
I have a sneaking hunch that what made architecture not enjoyable for me is the fact that it has only 5% need for brilliance, and 95% for sitting and drafting. Smart people don"t have to work hard! Screamed something inside me.
I hated that.
I hate filling orders, that is the nowadays equivalent of drafting. I never would have guessed that this Tree of Knowledge mindset is underneath that dislike.
I have been training myself for about a year now to stop and to look before I start a Freecell game. It is obvious that it is a losing strategy to just start moving the cards.
Today I "heard" the internal conversation, "IT" saying: "smart people don"t have to look..."
But the truth is:
Nothing worth doing is worth starting fast, without looking or research.
Nothing worth doing has ever been created fast.
No creativity is possible without first looking, and looking and
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