Genesis of creativity ...
I was reading Midnight Disease, a book by an MD with research access to an fMRI. She wanted to link creativity to bipolar disorder, which was an idea I found annoying. She was saying about how creative people wrote, on paper, in long-hand, and they went back over it and highlighted and underlined stuff, and categorized it with different color pens. "SO WHAT ?!?!" I was thinking by this time ... good grief ... maybe people weren't allowed to synthesize new ideas, to develop systems, to have generative thought in whatever kind of proscribed consciousness this woman had been stuck in. But creating new structures like that, to me, is the ultimate productive consciousness, and it often happens on paper and not through the intermediary of the computer.
I have gone over David Allen's Getting Things Done a few times. He talks about optimum and lesser states of consciousness and choosing the right kind of work, errands, list-making, planning, full-bore project work, dependent on an energy level, a current state of consciousness, that one can more-or-less plan and count on. Also, he talks about knowledge workers' needing to decide how something should be done, more than considering the on/off state of "doing" or "not doing."
It is interesting to me how I am finding a dialog between examinations of individual consciousness and management practices.
I have gone over David Allen's Getting Things Done a few times. He talks about optimum and lesser states of consciousness and choosing the right kind of work, errands, list-making, planning, full-bore project work, dependent on an energy level, a current state of consciousness, that one can more-or-less plan and count on. Also, he talks about knowledge workers' needing to decide how something should be done, more than considering the on/off state of "doing" or "not doing."
It is interesting to me how I am finding a dialog between examinations of individual consciousness and management practices.