Finding the Tools For a Creative Life

What is this blog about?

Looking at the many varied posts;

I can see that I have been thinking about time, and how it functions and we function within it. .

I have thought hard about the brain, how it is a very unique tool, and how to improve all it's functions to make my work better. I have learned it is plastic and changeable. We can change, we do change. 

I have read and used and experimented with many aspects of health, fitness and nutrition. I have tried many things and tried to distill all the conflicting information to have a simple concise plan. I want to create and build and that is all about endurance. 

I love authors and writing and creativity. I love creativity and believe it matters and it makes everything you do better. I write and I am trying to learn, and want to see what others are doing. I went to college on an art scholarship, studied literature, computers, and business 

The more eyes and minds on a problem, the more efficient the solution. 

You are your network. You become what your network is. 

Good business is creative, I find business creative and interesting and when business is done well , it is a powerful force to make the world around it better and when done badly it is one of the most destructive. 

I also believe firmly that specialization is for insects. 

Great minds are many things, and can do many things, can be many things, and can makes many things better for them simply taking an interest in it.  Creative people matter, look at some figures in history, Richard Feynman, Voltaire, Da Vinci, the list is long but these are all people who saw new potential in the everyday world. 

Someone the other day was making fun of liberal arts majors. I promise you, you give me a team of ten liberal arts majors and pit them against ten MBA's, the liberal art's team will stand a chance of creating something new, because the world is full of people with tools and nothing to say and no original thoughts in their head. I could create a world with liberal art's majors.  With MBA's I can refine a price point or talk at great length about Operations strategies but they, as a whole, do not create, they refine. 

Keep in mind I am a liberal arts major and an MBA. 

I find the world fascinating and people's reactions even more so, and believe that mental systems like Buddhism have tools and ways of life that are compelling and ways of living that work and have worked for thousands of years. 

All these topics fascinate me and I it think shows in the posts on this blog.

What seems like a lack of focus is actually me finding ways to function in the world, trying to be creative in a world that up until recently valued only obedience and specialization. 

I remember reading somewhere, I believe it was Plato, about the concept of Philosopher King, and since we are the Rulers of our lives and the CEO's of our finances self business, it is a good model to imulate, taking control of our lives, living our creative lives, with balance. 

I am all about finding the balance. 

And since the world changes constantly, balance matters and is also dynamic. 

That is what this blog is about, is finding the tools to create the balance you need to create. 

No matter who the artist, there needs to be a pocket of tools in hand to keep you functioning. 

D