One-eyed kings
Most failed entrepreneurial ventures and other creative efforts don’t make it for the simple reason that the people behind them literally can’t see the thing they’re trying to come to terms with. It isn’t that we can’t see anything at all, in fact the problem is that because we can see so much, we imagine that we see it all.
We’re so accustomed to being overwhelmed by information that we don’t even notice the fact we
Posted at 5pm on 10/25/07 | no comments | Filed Under: Eric McLuhan, Marshall McLuhan, Second Life, creativity, innovation, leadership, media ecology, planning, strategy
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Noted & quoted
"The human spirit requires surprise, variety, and risk in order to enlarge itself. Imagination feeds on novelty. As imagination emaciates, options diminish; the fewer our options, the more bleak our prospects and greater our susceptibility to controls."
Tom Robbins, author and journalist