Genius is he Enemy of genius

Genius is the Enemy of Genius

(Re: Collaborative Genius as

opposed to Singular.)

“Clarity is not a virtue.                                              “ Do you meditate, sam?”                                                   
                                                                                                   a student asked

If everything you say is detailed and explicit,                                              in class.
you won’t give your collaborators room to run.

                                                                                                        I call it prayer

Put ideas out there that are half-baked, ideas                              contemplation
where you’re not even sure what it means yet.                                     speculation

                                                                                                                         worry

Put yourself in an environment that rewards failure.                                                 &

                                                                                                                  wrangle :

Creativity is risky; successful creative people are also               wrestling with 
the ones who fail the most often.                                                           god or the
                                                                                                                  angel art

Creativity is inefficient.                                                    musing,  buttfarming
                                                                                             cerebral googling   

Don’t expect every idea and every project to pan out.      affective palpitating
Know when to cut your losses and move on.               panic attack &  anxiety  

                                                                                               reading palms and

“Innovation emerges from the bottom up,                                   Green tea leaves

unpredictably, and it’s only after the innovation       casting coins or straws

has occurred that every one realizes what’s happened.                with my I-Ching

                                                                            switching on the car radio

Innovation can’t be planned;    leaning in to  listen (obey) knowing the

can’t be predicted:        next song will speak to me, opening up room
it has to be allowed     in the inn what might fly by, stork or cargo

to emerge. Like      plane delivering the goods and it’s all the same

successful               to me, part & partial full of desire to cultivate

improvisation.         a part-to-whole relationship,  damnit: whatever

                                                               the discipline, practice, tradition

Key to understanding innovation:                          or method comes to

to realize that collaborative webs                                       mind.

are more important than creative
people. The power of this               go and do likewise I guess don’t         

collaborative web …is               necessarily mean sandals and saffron
what companies must                       but building up some frame of

tap into if they want                                    minding maybe from

to create a culture                                          crying out loud

that encourages              

significant                                           need we argue ?  Of course.

innovation.” from Keith Sawyer                        we must.

Group Genius: The Creative Power

of Collaboration.