The Big Think: Fear and UNinnovation
Intellectual liberation is a wonderful thing. The primary organ of oppression is the brain. From insidious political tactics to the horror of physical abuse, the physiological aspects of "thought-force" can render us helpless and slaves to our oppressors.
We're all victims of this. Thinkers who are squashed with the high-brow analysis of pseudointellectuals and the thought-bullies who know better than we.
The point here isn't liberation, but the shackles of constraint and fear that hold innovation and creativity at bay. Creativity is the spontaneous outpouring of emotion and thought. It's the magical moment that--after learning and introspection--bursts forth in moments of clarity and vision.
It's a precarious journey, this think we call thinking. And it can be so easily derailed by the infusion of just a simple thought.
And the thought to fear is fear itself. (yep, FDR was really on to something.)
Fear crushes innovation and creativity.
Fear puts our subconscious (and consciousness) mind in the exoteric world. Not the esoteric world of creativity that allow us to tap the broad and rich sea of knowledge-flux that bubbles up to surface.
Fear is the driver of mediocrity and duplication.
Simply put, the best of creative and innovative minds have one think in common: the freedom to fail!
Think on!