It is suggested that boredom begets creativity*. My mother would often say “necessity is the mother of invention”**. They present apparent opposite views on creativity. Or, … both attentive activity AND attentive inactivity are the parents of creative thinking. It is our incognizant state while always pursuing the unimportant that usurp the creative mind.
*Austin Kleon, Steal like an Artist
**Evelyn Marie Helen (O’Conner) Miller, 1915 – 2007
– our news media’s self issued license to spew unverified and unaccountable blather. Unaccountability is the genesis of dishonesty.
You do not get to chose to influence or impact those you come into contact as this is inevitable – you only get to chose how.
[After attending my 20th year high school reunion and realizing the (mostly positive) impact I had on so many people and the influence they in turn had on me. Virtually all of this contact was not made with intent to impact or influence, but it did nonetheless.]
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin (1818)
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