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Thursday, February 4, 2010

The Muse and Creativity

The Muses in Greek mythology, poetry, and literature are the goddesses or spirits who inspire the creation of literature and the arts.

In daily life, a muse is anything that inspires you to create something new based upon it. It can be a beautiful woman, a song or beautiful scenery, but usually a person...

Real question is when or where the Muse visits us. Answer is anytime or anywhere.

"The Muse can visit you inappropriate places. Be ready!"

We are all familiar the story of great Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.
"Once upon a time there were a boy called "Archimedes" and a king named "King Hiero II". Archimedes was asked to determine whether the king's crown was of solid gold, or whether silver had been added by a dishonest goldsmith. Archimedes had to solve the problem without damaging the crown, so he could not use traditional methods. While taking a BATH, he noticed that the level of the water in the tub rose as he got in, and realized that this effect could be used to determine the volume of the crown." We know the rest of the story. Archimedes then took to the streets naked, so excited by his discovery that he had forgotten to dress, crying "Eureka!", and the basic principles of hydrostatics was formed at that moment.

"What if the muse visits you, and can't find a place to sit? Be a tidy landlady/landlord."

In another case, imagine that you work in your work place like this one.


You leave everything in front of your eyes, so you can't spend time to find them. All of sudden, a great idea comes to your mind. You need to write it down, sketch it out. But you couldn't find your scratch pad, panicked for a bit, lost some of the idea in the panicking, grabbed a used paper, and wrote remaining words from the idea and sketched something, after a while threw it into trash. A story of wasted genuine idea...

Final words, personal Muse can be cranky, reluctant or impatient. Be ready at all times to meet…

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Muse spirit human, sometimes creativity came to your mind, need to record it without the influence of the environment. But show as a picture, how about the creativity to find what you need. If just a used paper, it almost like another kind of scratch pad, People usually do like thi.

Unknown said...

Hello

To read your story about the muse was very relieving . It was almost like reading a fairytale. Still, in this context it is an enjoyable way of demonstrating creative thoughts in practice. Good.

Friendly
Anette

Franzi said...

A muse,
I totally forgot the importance of that. Great idea. I really like this post.

Unknown said...

I like your post.It refreshed my memory on a number of things.It was very interesting too

Lilian said...

It was interesting to read your post.Good work