Today, after a very fruitful meeting with a tutor, I found myself searching “joy and the creative process”.
And that’s how I came across a very interesting article, titled Creative Joy: Process and Product, and written by poet and former teacher Jan Seale.
“Chance favors the prepared mind,” Louis Pasteur wisely observed. The Eureka! moment often comes during sleep or when reading unrelated material. Einstein had a breakthrough one day with his theory of relativity when he was simply observing a passing train. Descartes is said to have produced Cartesian geometry by observing the movements of a fly on the wall of his bedroom. And we have Percy Spencer, a military engineer, to thank for the microwave, brought about when he was working on a radar set and noticed that a candy bar had melted in his pocket.
At the moment I am still waiting for that Eureka! moment. In the meantime, I am going to try and focus on finding that joy, that spark of life which I will then instill into this project. And, hopefully, other people will feel it too.
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