Creative Attention
There are things we know. There are things we know we don’t know. I know I don’t know how to speak Chinese. And there are things we don’t know that we don’t know. So we can’t say much about those. But there is another category of knowing how to do something without knowing how to do it. We just do it.
We know how to pump blood through our veins, and how to inhale and exhale. We can be aware of these things. We can influence them by our actions. But we don’t really know in the sense of “how-to” do these things. Yet we can observe them.
In mythology the muse whispers in the ear of the creative person. The creative mind listens and observes. I don’t believe creativity is an act of will. But you can use willpower to form habit likely to put you in the creative state of mind. This is fundamentally what slow is about for me. What do you think?
