Creativity and Intelligence in Business and Life
Life
comes in Twos.
Light and Darkness. Hot and Cold. Male and Female. To derive
Order from Chaos in business and in life demands a certain
type of balance. We believe that one of the most fruitful
and stimulating relationships is the balance between
creativity and intelligence... strategic thinking and
innovative concepts... ideas and actions... the mind and the
hand operating in unison. Creativity
is imagination and innovation in all its
forms. It's
not just about making art out of ideas... it's about making
art out of life. In this 'house' we will explore all the
tools and ideas that give life to creativity, intelligence
and the unique connections between them. We'll access new
and interesting ways to use these fusions to enrich our
personal and professional lives. Art is not the province of
the few but the potential of many... Intelligence
isn't just about logic.
It's about turning data into information and turning
information into knowledge. It's about creating meaningful
patterns out of all the physical and intellectual assets we
have at our disposal. And laying "intelligent" foundations
on which to build the activities which define our work and
our life. But thinking well is only half the battle. Clear
thought must be supported by energetic action. Ideas must be
realized. The invisible made visible. Turning
the dream into the reality is one of the richest life
experiences we can have. From
the most basic elements we have constructed the grandest
things... Our intelligence even helps us take patterns from
nature itself, or from our own consciousness, and invent
something new. And although the natural is often superior to
the man-made, an elegant harmony of the two can be the key
to maximizing potential.
When
the Two work as One there is power and promise in every
act. Life's
natural duality is always resolved in the union of
opposites. The beauty of night's transit into day... the mix
of elegant skill and fierce power in sports... the
partnership of feminine and masculine. All are part of the
magic that happens when separate things converge. When it
becomes hard to tell where the subject ends and the object
begins. When the mind merges gracefully with the object of
its focus... Have you ever drawn a perfect line, thrown a
perfect pass... answered someone's question before it was
even asked? You ARE the pen that draws the line... you ARE
the ball being thrown... you ARE connected to that person
and have become linked to their experience. This
synergy is about separate things becoming
whole. About
conflict becoming co-operation. "All know that the drop
merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges
into the drop". Life may come in many twos... but the
meaning and power and potential is in the fusion of the two
into the one. This synchronicity enhances art, business,
sports... almost any human activity benefits from synergy
and balance. It's what brings chaos from order.
