Cure for pain

Servant of Chaos: But while the business world loves innovation and creativity, it is designed not to unleash innovation but to stifle it.

We say we want to improve ourselves and learn. But learning involves failure and change. And failure and change are painful. And we don't like pain very much (even you at the back with the leather paddle need a safe word). So we are trapped saying we like something that is ultimately good for us but gives us unpleasant short-term results. Far better to stay in the comfortable, cotton wool world of mediocrity & sameness.

Innovation also involves failure and change. If you can find a cure for pain then you can "normalise" innovation. Good luck.

Meanwhile Logic + Emotion gets told to "grow up". Never, ever remind adults that they are just children with more toys and a bigger vocabulary. That just makes everyone uncomfortable. We are very serious (and very important).

And what I remember about being a kid is being pre-genre. I didn't relate to music as rock, soul, jazz, etc. I didn't have the power to put things in boxes. To manage them. They overwhelmed me in an unsorted frenzy. And. And. And. And...

As noted in previous, creativity often emerges from saying "yes and" where others cannot see the (potential) join. "Don't be daft everyone knows that those two things don't go together".

If you want to make the future, how stupid are you prepared to be?