On Creativitity

[ommango]

These are Leonardo Da Vinci's principles for living (a la Michael Gelb):

curiosita', an insatiable curiosity; dimostrazione, testing knowledge through experience; sensazione, continued refinement of the senses; sfumato, a willingness to embrace ambiguity; arte/scienza, developing a balance between art and science; corporalita', cultivating fitness

Comments

[primalfire]

Yay! Somebody else who has found Gelbs books and DaVinci inspiration. I love Gelbs principles put forth, and am fascinated by Davinci. Also, I have been doing the 'Artist Way' for a few months now .. the morning pages are a great process.

[ommango]

You have been inspiring me talking about your morning pages and writing projects.
I have been doing them too, and finding I carry my notebook everywhere. Ecstatic poetry and a manuscript are coming out, but not in an organized way though I hope to be able to go to the next step someday when it is logical.

[primalfire]

Keep in mind that the organized part happens down the road. Backwards thinking it is to believe organization comes first, when creativity itself is the essential process.

Creativity

[summitgeek3]

It is fascinating that people were thinking about brain hemisphere integration centuries ago. Leonardo is also a very interesting study. We understand so little about creativity and how is actually occurs at the brain level. I suspect Penrose's speculations about particular kind of quantum jumps in certain types of quantum computing in the brain (The Emperor's New Mind) may have truth: a space of infinite possibilities that is still ordered, with defined transitions. Very odd when you think about it - that everything new may already be predefined in a quantum jump way, or as in Ecclesiastes, "What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done there is nothing new under the sun". Shakespeare also said something similar, although the words have been interpreted literally before

Re: Creativity

[ommango]

It is beautiful to say things again and again in different ways. Lately I have been feeling like a puppet being lived by consciousness, and that all is predestined anyway and I surrender to what that is.
What you say at the hemispheres of the brain and Leonardo seems correct-that they were not aware of it then (or so I believe). A modern interpretater of Leonardo's work brought that up and that is what I am quoting.

PS

[summitgeek3]

Love the sneakers :-)