I believe that the creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but courts it as the most promising source of novelty in his own thoughts. He rejects the demand of society that he should shun in himself the primitive, the uncultured, the naive, the magical, the nonsensical; that he must be a "civilized" member of the community. Creative individuals reject this demand because they want to own themselves totally and because they perceive a shortsightedness in the claim of society that all its members should adapt themselves to a norm for a given time and place.
The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon all classifications and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with new possibilities. - Frank Barron, research psychologist at UC Berkeley in The Psychology of Imagination.Take a day to immerse your imagination in novelty.
Let curiosity pull you in myriad directions.
Squint and search in the white spaces.
Write your name with water from puddles.
Converse with sparrows and statues.
Examine trees and leaves in detail.
Overturn rocks for discoveries.
Design the food around your plate.
Consider the nonsensical with made up words: treacle, raptle, frodoodle.
Find yourself in a realm of magic,
Write your discoveries in chartreuse ink.
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