My Boss, Nate, lent me a book called "orbiting the giant hairball: a corporate fool's guide to surviving with grace by, gordon mackenzie" today and I think it is quite wonderful.
It really is all about maintaining your creative genius, despite the fact that society tries to take it away. Especially within cooperate culture (which the author worked in for many years).
Being that I am going through a bit of a crisis ( I think I may be in permanent crisis ... always questions what I am doing in the present, never satisfied, always looking toward the horizon with hope) right now, this one particular portion of the book was perfection. And here it is:
There is a Fool in each of us,you know.
A rash, brash, harebrained, audacious, imprudent,
Ill-suited, spontaneous, impolitic, daredevil Fool, which,
In most of us,
Was long ago hog-tied and locked in the basement.
If you want to see a full-fledged Fool in action,
Watch an undisciplined child,
(The more undisciplined, the better!)
Oblivious to concepts of appropriate behavior,
Driven by rampant curiosity and innocent lust.
Raw genius,
Resolutely stumbling into hurt and wondrous discovery.
Inspired, annoying,
Rapturous, petulant.
The creative savage of our being.
Savages, Fools,
Do not a society make.
So we tame the little Yahoos.
We teach them the meaning of the word "no".
We teach them the benefits of boundaries.
We teach them the value of our learned lessons.
When our teaching fall short,
Our society begins to unravel,
And the quality of our culture declines.
So tame, we must.
But we have been slow to learn how to tame the Fool
Without also interring
The Fool's innate creativity and inborn genius.
With the bath water, the baby is cast out.
Chew on that.
And also, Take the Myers-Briggs test if you get a chance. I am an ENFJ: The Teacher.
It is a great way to get to know yourself, especially if you are young, lost, and are not sure if you and yourself are aquatinted quite yet.
You can analyze your results HERE!
OH! TO BE LOST. AND UNSURE.
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