Creativity and Freedom

One of the things I learned, working for others, is that I was always able to create freedom of action for myself, once I learned the ropes. My mind is such that I'm a pretty quick study. Give me a job, teach it to me, and quickly I'll come up with ways to do the job faster and better. I was fortunate, back in my days of employee-ing, to have bosses who actually thought that better and faster was a good thing.

I'm not one for endless reading. Which is not to say I don't read. I probably get through 40 or 50 books a year and as many tapes. I love listening to the words of others. But what I have discovered is how clever all of us writers are at saying the same thing in different language. Me too.

No, my reading is for the pleasure of juggling ideas. My life is about implementation. Many people, for example, get curious about Bodywork. I got curious and got my hands on some volunteers, and over a year learned how to actually do Bodywork.

Back when I was in training, they'd present a theory. Virtually all the other "baby therapists" would write notes and read and think about what they were learning. My supervisors would laugh and say, "Oh. This semester Wayne's a Gestalt Therapist." And they'd be right. I'd apply what I was taught, and evaluate the approach against what I was already doing.

If you are an employee,  I would suggest that if you see a more intelligent way to do something, that you figure out how to test your theory. As a "boss," do the same thing, and encourage your employees the take a few risks, to think, to read, to innovate. Everything that has ever been invented or used in management was once a new idea. Someone had to have the courage to try it out, the courage to risk falling flat, the courage to see the thing through.

In the end, you can be safe and secure in the predictable known, or you can live in your head and have fantasies of "different." Or you can implement change in the world by actually changing something.

You choose.

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