MELLOWING
INTO YOUR CREATIVE GENIUS
CARA'S
CORNER
I
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I'm
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and have put up a media page and will do an interview with him
shortly. I've decided to turn the tables on him and interview
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I
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As
I continue to help extraordinary people pass their wisdom forward
in a signature product that brings them passive income, I wanted
to write about how we mellow into our creative genius over time.
Warmly,
MELLOWING INTO YOUR CREATIVE GENIUS
Every
time I start to think it may be too late to achieve something
exciting, someone reminds me of Colonel Sanders who started Kentucky
Fried Chicken in his 80's
But
a recent article by David W. Galenson & Joshua Kotin that
originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times, pointed out the
difference in creative styles between those who did awesome things
in their 20's and those who developed over time-the Conceptual
Innovators vs. the Experimental Innovators.
Young
people are often "Conceptual Innovators. They get an inspired
idea and often work it into a unique masterpiece. They have a
tendency to be the rule breakers. Picasso created cubism at 25.
Orson Wells made Citizen Kane at 25. Mozart wrote full symphonies
in his teens and 20s. Conceptual Innovators are often driven by
the need to express a new idea or particular emotions. The flash
of insight comes and they follow their ideas and create a new
concept.
But
there is another way creativity emerges. It is the trial-and-error
experimentation and contemplation that ultimately leads to a unique
expression of the collected wisdom and life experience. These
people are called "Experimental Innovators" and they
seek to describe what they see and hear and understand. They examine
the overview based on their life experience and their personal
quest for knowledge, and organize it into a unique and individualized
offering.
The
list is long of people whose quest for expression involved a long
journey. Paul Cezanne was an experimental innovator. After failing
to get into the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he left Paris
feeling totally discouraged because he felt he could not compete
with other young artists of his time. After years spent in contemplation
and exploration, he finally came to understand what he wanted
to do. He wanted to bring solidity to Impressionism. He was 30
years old at the time. Then he spent the next 30 years, primarily
in seclusion, developing his unique style that ultimately influenced
every important artist of the next generation.
It's
important to have a goal. It's important to make a commitment
to the problem you want to solve. It's important to keep on learning
and to examine your life experience as you formulate your personal
philosophy.
Mark
Twain wrote Tom Sawyer at 41 and Huckleberry Finn at 50
Robert
Frost dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, retreated to
a rural environment, and published his most famous poem, "Stopping
by Woods on a Snowy Evening," at 49.
Frank
Loyd Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim
Museum until his death at 91
At
63 Frost observed that young people have flashes of insight, but
"it is later in the dark of life that you see forms, constellations.
And it is the constellations that are philosophy."
It
is our unique philosophy that we can put into information products
that will possibly change the lives of others. I think it's important
that we pass forward the wisdom we have accumulated over the years.
If we share our successes and our less-than-successes and others
will learn from them. We've come too far and know too much to
allow ourselves to move into a sedentary existence as we age.
Pick up your pen, get on that computer, go to that art class,
take the creative writing course, write that e-book, lead that
workshop, follow your passion, follow that dream you've been carrying
in your heart all your life. Now is the time. Now is the time
for you to step up to the plate and go to bat for what you have
leaned and what you believe. Get active. Get creative. Rejoin
that you have finally mellowed into your own creative genius.
©
Cara Lumen 2007
www.caralumen.com
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wisdom and experience to greater service in the world. Through
Your Second Wind Coaching Cara helps you leveraging your knowledge
into a profitable information product that produces passive income.
Her web site is www.caralumen.com
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