Yes, yes it's been a long hiatus. I will attempt at persevering this time.
Today's rant is about ideas.
Ideas and emotions. Do they exist on different planes?
The late, and great, Baronness Thatcher once said " people nowadays are always going on about how they 'feel'...oh i'm feeling this or that ...they've gone soft ...now ideas, and thoughts ...these are what interest me!"
Or something to that effect. (Don't quote me on the quote...really).
What she said points to a belief that ideas and emotions are best kept separate.
Unfortunately these days things just don't stay separate. Ideas and emotions mix to the point of non-definition. We've got morons plying the masses with ideas, then selling these very ideas with emotions.
What worries me is that i may just be one of them.
What idea? Not clear - still sifting through the emotions.
What idea? Not clear - still sifting through the emotions.
Psychologists on the other hand hold a different view - that emotions are constantly changing, in part because feelings change, and in part due to the constant stream of ideas that flow in the unconscious mind.
So does one cause the other? Does one inspire the next? If so which comes first?
All the great things that have been created in this world came from an idea. Does an idea get its fuel from emotion? To make it grow and manifest? Or can an idea develop in a parched, clinical environment of no emotion.
I wonder.
If anyone's read the Secret, or the Law of Attraction, it is repeated yet and again that thoughts, or ideas, or specifically desires, manifest more readily when positive emotion is applied to it. A pervasive sense of belief is needed. Tall order for some.
And then there's this.
So me thinks that in order for an idea to even survive, one's gotta feel for it. And strongly.
Why do i speak of this? I haven't a clue. Mine is a mind that's working through too much single malt scotch consumed over a night's excess.
I should really be working on a client's ad campaign, but the ideas stubbornly elude me. Perhaps cause there's no invested emotion in the whole thing? Hmm this entire discussion is beginning to sound terribly self- indulgent.
Perhaps it's time to focus on what's really important.
Action.
Never mind ideas and emotions. Time to get off my sorry arse and make the magic happen.
Why do i speak of this? I haven't a clue.
Sigh. Perhaps cause it's time to act.
Till the next rant. Haha.
Why do i speak of this? I haven't a clue. Mine is a mind that's working through too much single malt scotch consumed over a night's excess.
I should really be working on a client's ad campaign, but the ideas stubbornly elude me. Perhaps cause there's no invested emotion in the whole thing? Hmm this entire discussion is beginning to sound terribly self- indulgent.
Perhaps it's time to focus on what's really important.
Action.
Never mind ideas and emotions. Time to get off my sorry arse and make the magic happen.
Why do i speak of this? I haven't a clue.
Sigh. Perhaps cause it's time to act.
Till the next rant. Haha.
