#1398 - proliferating options
In their book, "The Runaway Species", David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt say that one of the core principles of creativity is proliferating options.
They use Mother Nature as an example: a master in this practice, she relentlessly proliferates options from which only a few emerge and thrive.
This morning I was reflecting on the countless ideas that never made it out of my head.
It is something that has always bothered me. I keep having intuitions and ideas that are born and dead in my thoughts. Sometimes, they become a few words or a sketch on paper; rarely, they survive further than that.
I don't know if it's because I'm lazy or if it's because the act of ideation is rewarding enough for me. Yes, playing out an idea in my head is so exciting that it feels like a repetition when I try to manifest some of them. That feeling of newness that made an idea so compelling is gone.
Returning to this morning's reflection, maybe my unquiet mind is just proliferating options knowing that only the best will survive long enough to thrive outside in the real world.
Looking at it from this perspective, having a lot of ideas and manifesting almost none of them feels natural. Or maybe I'm just stretching this idea only to feel better.