Naïvennovation

Recently in Spain, there has been some kind of agitation about not economy but a "restoration" of an ecce homo fresco painting in a small town church, by an 80year-old woman who declared to do it "for good". The result looks somewhat grotesque, only if we compare with the original. But, is this really the result of the action?
The result is that everybody is talking about it, the town has so many visitors, merchandising of all kind is being manufactured,...so the result is a profit. A profit that came through an action of changing the established way, without permission, with good intention and naïvety, but without really any intention of profit. I think it qualifies as innovation. What do you think?
The fact does not imply that every masterpiece of Art could be ruined. This innovation (or atrocity) came from a fact and its circumstances.
But please, do not focus on this exact example that I chose to illustrate a concept, the concept of naïvennovation.
Whether one works hard an idea and showed it as a naïve invention or it really came out of the blue without meaning to produce some profit, the result is the same: a profit out of an innovative action without purpose or intention (naïvennovation).

We all see the 3M post-it TM as one of the recurrent examples to show innovative products that came laterally aside from the goal of the project. Does it qualifies to be naïvennovation? Maybe not.

I can't help but be interested in the implications of the actions, on purpose or not, only to call the attention on the consequences achieved through an action (dimming a little bit the intention which drove it).

Before judging (by his face), think about the potential benefits and profits that an innovation may yield.

[By the way, I am sure great Diego Rivera would have preferred the new fresco to the old one]

Cheers.

stream of consciousness

#TheStreamofConsciousness

The Stream of Consciousness refers to the flow of thoughts in the conscious mind, and also is a narrative mode that seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions. It is the continuous flow of sense‐perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and memories...and also the connections or mingling through the thought process.

In literature, this mode was pioneered by Dorothy Richardson in Pilgrimage (1915–35) and by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922), and further developed by Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway (1925) and William Faulkner in The Sound and the Fury (1928). Hard to read out, uh? As hard to watch out a David Lynch movie…

When we start to think in a #lateral way, either through a planned #Ideation session or just while watching commercials on TV, we are able to sense that our mind is working  in a different way: faster most of the time, sudden pace changes, …until we come up with ideas that nothing have to do with the original issue. But if we are quieter and listen to our thoughts thoroughly, what is more impressive is the lack of blank or pause-between-sections. One thought mingles with the next, sometimes without even a comma.

Mr de Bono explained us that one way to really quicken the pop-up of ideas is to become faster (by exercising lateral thinking) at concept association. These associations are the bonds and linkages throughout the thought.

Listening to your thought stream does not mean to slow the process. Some writers have the practice of creative writing by writing down every idea that comes to their mind, by letting the thought flow like a river of words. If you are not a writer, maybe you could use your voice recorder.

Would you dare? Would you dare to share it (vimeo, e.g.)? But What’s the point then?: to deliver the same problem or riddle to solve to different people, and to record the process for each individual.

There is a lot of abstraction and intuition in the world. Negativity restricts Creativity.-D. Lynch

Here I found an interesting video link:

http://archive.org/details/ConsciousnessCreativityAndTheBrain

THE WALKING DEAD

Alone facing Danger

SHOULD A LATERAL THINKER BE AFRAID?

I always enjoyed stories dealing with a few "normal" people fighting alone a massive invasion of villains. I can now think of The walking dead/The invasion of the body snatchers/28 days later/The last man on earth/V visitors and so on.

On the picture, we see quite a bunch of "grey", slow, hungry and dominated herd trying to turn the "colored" guy into one of them. Sometimes, that is the picture for creative or open-to-change people, who suffer the peer pressure of the invaders. Even, most of the time, they see themselves as the invaders.

As a colleague of mine once told me (M.A.P.G.), you cannot choose the side at the beginning but the conversion can be reversed bothways. "Once you feel a change is to come, it is already happening", and you won't have to wonder which side of the battle you are on.

Quoting Victor Hugo: On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.

Certainly, One cannot resist an idea whose time has come. By letting changes come and coaching yourself to think in a lateral way, you are letting the rest of the herd know that you would like to be different. And this is dangerous. But that happens until you get to know that the creative side can also bite and fight back. A happy ending you can guess.

So, every time you look at your leg and see it is becoming grey day by day from the shoe, you gotta be doing something, mate! Do not let the herd capture you, but also, do not concentrate on fighting them but on keep walking and shining.

ey, a new post to be called "The Shining" will soon arrive.
I hope not to have bothered you with so many metaphor...
Cheers.