I have found this website that searches blogs, myspaces, wespaces and the like looking for sentences with the word feel and then a describing word attached…
Like I feel beautiful, I feel angry, I feel itchy. So on and so on.
At this moment people accross the world, accross the web are expressing the fact that they feel:
1.small
2.dirty
3.proud
4.awkward
5.cold
6.safe
7.lonely
8.wrong
9.real
10.great
What a fascinating social experiment. That someone, would create a software to check how the world is feeling. Its a huge big question shouting out accross the ‘How are ya feeling?’
The interesting thing however, for as long as this experiment has been going most people express feelings that are negatively bent.
On tuesday night, the amazing Jeff Crabtree and Julie Crabtree spoke to our creative teams about ‘Living with a creative mind!’ (the topic of their well anticipated book)
Jeff played a clip from this website- which was inspirational.
Favourite Things: new laptop with fingerprint technology
Sooooo, laughing at this photo.
Another confession ‘I have a fake sugar addiction also’ Mostly because I love sweet things, but they don’t love my body!
As I was laughing at this photo, I got a pretty damning creative revelation.
How often do we replace the real thing, for some fake, chemical, lack of freshness in the area of creativity and performance?
How often do we go back to something that has satisfied our real need but with something that is not the real thing?
Fake conversations, old ideas, songs that have worked so get them out again, messages and writings that are old, stale or even worse just a fake replica?
Favourite Things: 75% off boots at Myer! Yes girls can you believe it I brought two pairs….75% off! no way…yes way…on an already discounted price.
Smile.
My favourite Things has never gone this long.
Now it has…. ahhh 75% off, that’s criminal.
Anyway back to my post.
Walt Disney, for those who have read my book, Walt Disney was actually one of the hero’s in my first draft of Capture, but somehow, someway he got removed. Mostly from fear of copyright laws. But this morning I was in Adelaide for our ‘Building business leaders breakfast’ on the topic of disney and I was reminded of his hero status in this creative pigrims walk.
And it was amazing. The speaker Phil Baker, (as much as he’s my boss!) was exceptional and the presentation was the coolest of its like I have ever seen.
Leadership lessons from Walt Disney are not hard to conjure up, as the man in one life lived extraordinarily large.
From his attitude towards excellence, to his attention to detail, to his huge vision, to his pathfinding passion. Disney was a machine and creatively left his splash on the world, for my generation and for many to come.
It got me thinking particularily about living beyond the now, in the creative realm and what is it that you and I have on the inside of us? What creativity is awaiting exploration that can leave a mark on a generation.
I wholeheartedly believe that every person has the potential for creativity, every person has a creative gene, because we were created in the image of the ultimate creator.
What ideas are awaiting disneyification? What life changing light bulb is awaiting the perfect switch on, that could affect a generation.
Open your mind to the impossible, dream large and lifelike, bring a fresh splash of paint to your corridoor of the globe…The world so desperately needs uncommon innovators, men and women of purpose who declare bold creativity.
