Innovation & the Mind

Behind every innovation lies great creativity.

Great creativity requires endurance, stability & tenacity.

Creative people often struggle with the latter three.

As i was trying to figure out the logo for my new company, it occurred to me that what I really do love is melding the duo into an amazing force. Logic and Creativity. That is what i love. That is my passion.

It’s interesting to me, because it’s what i believe Leonardo da Vinci most had, that others do not. The ability to see art & music in the science, and to see art in the science. That’s what he did best, and why he is such an extraordinary thinker. Leonardo was the renaissance man.

Yet there are others. There are some unique challenges that we face today that he did not. The cellphone is one. It sucks our attention away from projects. Yes, we have indoor lighting, and information at our fingertips, but that is often one of our major challenges.

It is in the information age highly difficult to achieve the art of sense. The art of sensing, engaging, being fully present. The art of reading is becoming slightly lost, although libraries are always at our fingertips. The joy of discovery has led us to share discoveries on the internet, and take photos of them. New bugs we see, we photograph. We do not sit and draw mushrooms.

In my travels to Oregon recently, I discovered hundreds of mushrooms. I took photos of them, and learned about them. But i did not draw them to contemplate the shading. I did feel them to enjoy their soft, sticky or odd consistency. But i too am part of my era.

It is in learning to go back in time, to wend our way through the epochs of time and discover the art of slow thinking that has allowed me to pursue the great innovation. The innovation that i love to think upon.

So here i am in this modern age, with memories of times gone by surrounding me. A Singer Sewing machine in a Queen Anne table, a pre-World War II upright bass. Hourglasses and time pieces that must be wound by hand. Dragons and knights, old and new.

The world is filled with slow. Music is filled with slow. There is joy when we add the uptempo. But not too much. Indeed, the greatest art feels authentic, wending its way through time.

When i listen to the metal most powerful, and super fast, i think about the feeling that is lost in the technique. Those guitarists are just moving too fast!
I cannot process the notes that quickly! They are impressive, but i feel nothing.

And it is in the feeling and the contemplation that discoveries can be made.

So it is with this contemplation that i continue the art of finding my logo. Because Welcome the Muse is not a business, it’s a philosophy. Of turning creativity to logic and time to achieve the art of beauty in the science, the science and innovation in the arts. We must work together if we are going to find a most beautiful world. And that is where i will start. By marrying logic and creativity, as i welcome the muse.

Today, that is my contemplation. Tomorrow, it will be on my garden. How to grow a business like we grow plants…steady watering…steady light. Gentle focus.

Yes indeed. Every day is different. Yet the internal message must remain the same. The art of divine creativity in welcoming the muse, by incorporating light and dark, creativity and joy, love in the aftermath of pain.

If we are to become our finest inventions, we must sing the finest of songs. Slow and light, light and fast, melodious and harmonic. The blending of the arts to achieve a new meaning, a new life.

We are ready to create as we welcome the muse. Let us welcome her today.