Cultivate silliness. Consider for a moment the learnings in life you've
forfeited because your parents, your peers, your school, your society,
have not allowed you to be playful, free and foolish in the learning
process. How many times have you failed to try something new out of fear
of being thought silly? How often have you censored your spontaneity out
of fear of being thought childish?
Too bad. Psychologist Abraham Maslow discovered a childlike quality (he
called i a "second naivete") in people who have met an unusually high
degree of their potential. Ashleigh Montagu used the term neotany (from
neonate, meaning newborn) to describe geniuses such as Mozart and
Einstein. What we frown at as foolish in our friends, or ourselves, we're
likely to smile at as merely eccentric in a world-renowned genius, never
stopping to think that the freedom to be foolish might well be one of the
keys to the genius' success - or even to something as basic as learning to
talk and walk.
Creativity
requires spending time "doing nothing" - workaholism guarantees its
death
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