Over at the Looper’s Delight group we were discussing what to do with ideas that don’t grow the way we expected, or wanted them to. Richard Sales of Glasswing Studios and Good Nature Farms (A farm/Creative sanctuary) then said the following:
We have a policy at our house that, when someone is in the creative moment, we tiptoe, we close doors quietly, we are very respectful of the presence of the Muse – that lightning fast butterfly. When we accidentally barge in, we dont’ make conversation and apologize etc. Everyone is trained.
This is such a great practice to follow!
Everyone puts such a great emphasis on collaboration nowadays, we assume that the best results will only occur when everyone is open to everyone else. Businesses try and force collaboration through architecture, work flows, etc.
Yet, how often do businesses respect the need for people to seriously engage their muses; to afford people the silence to hear the silent whispers of inspiration within? How often to we tread lightly when approaching people who are immersed in their creative moments?
How can businesses and people structure the environment, or create rules, so that individual creative moments are free to blossom?
Beautiful, amazing, new, hybrid plants are possible through botanical cooperation – the collaboration of multiple flowers.
But before this can occur, each flower needs to bloom on its own…
