((I'll put the date here as soon as I figure out when this was made, but I'm guessing 2009))
[Continues from: Archive - Roll With It]
Rating: PG
Who: Anyone
What: Early morning and a Porsche Cayman
Where: ACME Headquarters, San Francisco
The dawn of a rather peaceful Saturday gleamed with...
Was just thinking, when someone says think outside the box....why does it have to be a box? Why can't it be anything you want? Like a closet? Or a door? Hehe
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?
It's because it hinges on the idea that everyone wants to be ordinary (aka "normal") and that being anything other should be punishable socially. It stems from imperial modes of thinking that harm people not white-cis-straight-abled-perisex-etc because the idea of normal is centred on "some guy"-isms
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?