Everything used to be – more creative

Who hasn’t experienced eye-rolling when granny talks about the old days? To be honest, even if a story ‘from the past’ is supposed to have a lesson, it doesn’t really resonate with me. The drawer labelled ‘irrelevant to the present’ is immediately opened in my mind and the story is dropped there.

Most of the time, the stories are so well-woven that I first have to imagine myself in the life of that time before I can find a transformation into today. That usually doesn’t work. Yet knowledge from the past can mean innovation for today; many things that we use today in a modified form come from historical contexts.

Perhaps the stories need to be told differently:

I have noticed that fewer and fewer truly creative ideas are arising at the moment. I have realised for myself that creativity has something to do with time and even boredom. That’s why I’m putting my smartphone away more and more often and allowing myself to be bored. Do you feel the same way? What are your solution strategies?

You could tell the same story about waiting for the bus and waiting for friends without smartphone in the 1980ies . But that wouldn’t be insight-orientated. Experience is rewarding, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be linked to stories.

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