This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
— Henry David Thoreau
CREATIVITY
— Henry David Thoreau
CREATIVITY
Most of what you call your surroundings is raw material waiting on what you bring to it. The same street, the same job, the same afternoon can be dull or full depending on what you are prepared to see in it. That is not a trick of positive thinking; it is a fact about attention, which decides what counts as worth noticing. The world supplies the surface. You supply the rest.
Pick somewhere you pass through without looking and look properly once. Ask what could be made here that nobody has bothered to make yet, and write the answer down.
What would you make of your surroundings if nothing was fixed?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.