I left off yesterday talking about how we have to feed our brain. But feeding our brain will be worthless unless we do something with it. Knowledge should be attained so that it can be shared. But it shouldn’t be shared strictly as information. No, the knowledge must be put to practice. This falls into two categories. Using your knowledge to make a living, and using your knowledge for living. The first obviously deals with our profession. We must have knowledge in order to do our jobs properly, whether one is a teacher, a lawyer, a doctor, a mail carrier, an anything. The second is what we actually do with our lives. Our lives are not work alone, and it is our resposibility, yes RESPONSIBILITY, as living beings to be productive then too. That is why we need to be able to put our knowledge to use by creating. The neat thing is that we can go and create whatever we want, specifically what we would enjoy most creating.
Now some people get frustrated because they don’t feel so creative. they feel like what they can do is not necessarily of good quality. Well, there is a good reason for that. Not everything we do is going to be of good quality. Output is a result of input. If we want to create something good, we must bring in good resources. that’s where knowledge comes in. the better prepared we are, the better our creations will be. But quantity is not sufficient, we must bring in useful information.
Think of this. When we eat our body responds in a way indicative of what we ate. If we eat healthy, we will generally feel and act healthier. If we eat trash, we will act and feel like garbage. The same goes for information intake. if we want to create something special we must focus on learning the things that will help us make our creation special.
This still doesn’t guarantee good work, though. And that’s OK. The point is to work. No matter how well one eats, there will be waste to discharge. Once the waste is out, the body is more efficient, and can thus work more efficiently. If the body does not remove the waste, it would get sick, and would therefore not function properly. It is the same for our creative selves. When we begin to create we must rid ourselves of excess “junk”, thereby purifying ourselves of all things that hinder our creativity. That’s why we have first, second, and third drafts when doing work. That’s also why one needs to simply get started in order to produce something of value. The more you work, the quicker you can excrete the extra stuff. Once your load is lightened, then you find it easier to continue. how many times have we started doing something that felt like great labor, only to find ourselves on a roll, where we couldn’t stop typing, stop drawing, stop molding. We simply couldn’t stop! All our positive resources were working and hence, we were coming up with inspired work!
This is the very reason we need to create daily. We need to make sure that we don’t accumulate the matter that prevents our creative minds from working efficiently. Doin so will only allow us to put forth great work. We need only put ourselves in a state where we can create. There is one best way to axchieve that state. That is by internalizing. That is what I will be going over tomorrow. But, don’t wait for me to get you the info. Go give yourself a chance, and in Rob’s words, “GO CREATE SOMETHING”!
Now some people get frustrated because they don’t feel so creative. they feel like what they can do is not necessarily of good quality. Well, there is a good reason for that. Not everything we do is going to be of good quality. Output is a result of input. If we want to create something good, we must bring in good resources. that’s where knowledge comes in. the better prepared we are, the better our creations will be. But quantity is not sufficient, we must bring in useful information.
Think of this. When we eat our body responds in a way indicative of what we ate. If we eat healthy, we will generally feel and act healthier. If we eat trash, we will act and feel like garbage. The same goes for information intake. if we want to create something special we must focus on learning the things that will help us make our creation special.
This still doesn’t guarantee good work, though. And that’s OK. The point is to work. No matter how well one eats, there will be waste to discharge. Once the waste is out, the body is more efficient, and can thus work more efficiently. If the body does not remove the waste, it would get sick, and would therefore not function properly. It is the same for our creative selves. When we begin to create we must rid ourselves of excess “junk”, thereby purifying ourselves of all things that hinder our creativity. That’s why we have first, second, and third drafts when doing work. That’s also why one needs to simply get started in order to produce something of value. The more you work, the quicker you can excrete the extra stuff. Once your load is lightened, then you find it easier to continue. how many times have we started doing something that felt like great labor, only to find ourselves on a roll, where we couldn’t stop typing, stop drawing, stop molding. We simply couldn’t stop! All our positive resources were working and hence, we were coming up with inspired work!
This is the very reason we need to create daily. We need to make sure that we don’t accumulate the matter that prevents our creative minds from working efficiently. Doin so will only allow us to put forth great work. We need only put ourselves in a state where we can create. There is one best way to axchieve that state. That is by internalizing. That is what I will be going over tomorrow. But, don’t wait for me to get you the info. Go give yourself a chance, and in Rob’s words, “GO CREATE SOMETHING”!
