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2 What the luck is Creative Industry?! 3 Creativity with an imagin ary gun to your head... 4 What’s out of the box? 5 Where to from here? 6 Expect the unexpected (co nventionally speaking)... Who would have believed it? 8 What happens next? 9 Next ADD-venture please! 10
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It would be a bit weird if by now you had read this far & were not beginning to wonder where is all of this really going... & it would be perfectly reasonable of you to be feeling confused perhaps, & even frustrated with me (wandering around like this) making you puzzle over where it all came from anyway. Assuming you read this far...that is. So first this “creative entrepreneur” wants to says to you. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. It is so very, very, very much appreciated. & that is precisely the point actually.
Appreciation. That’s it really, an unwritten untouchable idea yet a concept we all live (& die) by. At least that is what I beleive. I think we all really need to exchange ideas. It isn’t only to do with commercial activity yet it’s definitely to do with a kinder kind of currency.
WHO would why?
Hence a real need (hopefully I’m not alone feeling this way) for refreshing a “culture of appreciation” in any idea of “industry”. Supply & demand works in anything. In order to bring better practice to busy-i-ness we really need to render greater authenticity (wink to Pine&Gilmore as well as Neil Crofts here) to the process of personal growth. Encouraging creative living again. It takes two to tango. In modern industry (& many other fields of interest such as education, ethics & energy) it’s tough to express individual needs when our collective values are invested in appreciation of how we use our time (e.g paying bills, consuming consumerables & building likability). Benefits are as abstract as imaginary goals. Oh dear, this is sounding a lot like “Art Speak”...yet happily...it stops quickly. For me its a wild abstact concept the idea of “making money” in the first place? Why do we? & then needing to do it each day for no reason than well, making more of it? King Midas-ing!
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One Inter-preta(c)tion. Like Art for Arts sake we could continue doing the same old same old of course. If it works then why fix it? But what if the plan doesn’t actually include any plan to “make” any “difference” in it? What to do when questions need directing regarding attitude & answers aren’t in any mood for listening? This has a name (& no it isn’t Voldermort). Enter-the-no-surprise:
Dilemma There’s no way out without a change of mind. Without alterring some kind of attitude.
What next?
Our appreciation of ideas like “money” for instance can really make a big difference. In the “big” picture, that difference can quite make all the difference in the world.
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Wealth is something we all can appreciate. What does it feel like to feel safe? What are you glad for from today? What do you love to do? Where is love found? Why is friendship so cool? What is your favourite colour? Who do you trust? & so on...
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