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| Alexander the Great cutting through the legend 'Gordian knot' |
“Rules are a great way to
get ideas.
All that you have to do is break them” (Jack Foster)
Ideas are unlimited. We are the ones who
limited ourselves to have more ideas. The greatest obstacle to creativity and
to generate ideas, I think, is the rules that we give to ourselves
and even from others. Hey, challenge the rule and break them! Just because
things have always been done in a certain way does not mean that there are no
other ways of doing or seeing them.
Do you know? In about 333 BC, at the
city of Gordium, Turkey, there was a legend about whoever can untie the “Gordium Knot” would become the king of
Asia. Alexander the Great was one of the many people who attempted to untie the
knot. At first he could not find the end of the knot to unbind it, so he
stepped back and said, “What does it matter how I loose it?” So he raised
his sword and slashed the knot into half, producing the required ends by
breaking the rules and making the prophecy come true. He literally became the
king of Asia!
Creative
thinkers get their great ideas when they challenge and break the obvious. Mary
Lou Cook famously said: “Creativity is
inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” Break
the rules!
Lord, Give Us Today Our Daily Idea(s)
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