
This is an except from Barry's article on: Sustained Imagination and Belief", you can find the full article on Barry's website. (See link below). Barry will be running a workshop on Sunday 8th July at Burwood RSL at midday.
Sustained Imagination and Belief
Barry says: "There’s an old proverb – If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales".
There’s magic in Imagination.
Children naturally have an awesome sense of creativity and Imagination. If their brain wants to play, it will make up the best and most exciting adventure, conjuring up all manner of non-sensical, yet illustrative possibilities through boundless potentialities. Can we fly? Absolutely. Can we eat space-mud? Why not? For sure. Its just awesome to see a human being unrestrained from the shackles of ‘keeping it real’.
As adults very few of us actually use the power of Imagination to live out our own personal potential. We tend to recognise the term as child’s play or worse, not living in ‘reality’.
When we’re re-inventing any part of our lives, Imagination is the blueprint to build your future.
SO keeping in the true spirit of Imagination, Barry has invented two distinct tribes. The KIRCS and the KICCs.
‘Keeping it real crowd’ – the (KIRC’s). In this tribe, no one really steps out of their comfort zone – they do tomorrow what was done yesterday and their work week resembles more of a cookie-cut outfit, rather than daring to plunge into any type of daring adventure that could lead to personal bliss. Its seemingly safe there, its warm, and most who live there will sight security and a familiar outcome as the reason they live there. Children are usually taught to play it safe combined with harsh, sometime fear-based lessons on how risk taking is for others and more than often than not, leads you down an unhappy or disappointing path. The only imagination that exists here lie in the occasional fairy-tale stories that are read to their children before sleep. KIRC’s children will one day stop reading fairy-tales and unfortunately their imagination for possibilities will ultimately extinguish.
The second crowd is the ‘keeping it creative’ tribe (KICC’s). In this crowd, unconventional thinking is encouraged. KICC’s like their KIRC’s counterparts also read fairy-tales to their children – but with a deeper understanding between the link germinating from imagination to creative thinking that can lead to unconventional solutions into adulthood. The link then between possibilities and probabilities is also corrosion free. KICC’s kids, somewhat like their parents take certain risks in childhood as well as when they become adults. Not because any outcome is certain but because risk taking is part of out daily routine anyway.
If we can Imagine a future and believe it can exist. It’s only a matter of time….
So the question Barry asks is; "Do you have the courage to imagine a future you want for yourself, seek opportunities to that end – and can you suspend your disbelief until it manifests?"
More information about Barry at: www.barrynicolaou.com.au
See Barry Nicolaou at Connections Fair in the workshop room - Part of Connections Fairs
Sustained Imagination and Belief
Barry says: "There’s an old proverb – If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales".
There’s magic in Imagination.
Children naturally have an awesome sense of creativity and Imagination. If their brain wants to play, it will make up the best and most exciting adventure, conjuring up all manner of non-sensical, yet illustrative possibilities through boundless potentialities. Can we fly? Absolutely. Can we eat space-mud? Why not? For sure. Its just awesome to see a human being unrestrained from the shackles of ‘keeping it real’.
As adults very few of us actually use the power of Imagination to live out our own personal potential. We tend to recognise the term as child’s play or worse, not living in ‘reality’.
When we’re re-inventing any part of our lives, Imagination is the blueprint to build your future.
SO keeping in the true spirit of Imagination, Barry has invented two distinct tribes. The KIRCS and the KICCs.
‘Keeping it real crowd’ – the (KIRC’s). In this tribe, no one really steps out of their comfort zone – they do tomorrow what was done yesterday and their work week resembles more of a cookie-cut outfit, rather than daring to plunge into any type of daring adventure that could lead to personal bliss. Its seemingly safe there, its warm, and most who live there will sight security and a familiar outcome as the reason they live there. Children are usually taught to play it safe combined with harsh, sometime fear-based lessons on how risk taking is for others and more than often than not, leads you down an unhappy or disappointing path. The only imagination that exists here lie in the occasional fairy-tale stories that are read to their children before sleep. KIRC’s children will one day stop reading fairy-tales and unfortunately their imagination for possibilities will ultimately extinguish.
The second crowd is the ‘keeping it creative’ tribe (KICC’s). In this crowd, unconventional thinking is encouraged. KICC’s like their KIRC’s counterparts also read fairy-tales to their children – but with a deeper understanding between the link germinating from imagination to creative thinking that can lead to unconventional solutions into adulthood. The link then between possibilities and probabilities is also corrosion free. KICC’s kids, somewhat like their parents take certain risks in childhood as well as when they become adults. Not because any outcome is certain but because risk taking is part of out daily routine anyway.
If we can Imagine a future and believe it can exist. It’s only a matter of time….
So the question Barry asks is; "Do you have the courage to imagine a future you want for yourself, seek opportunities to that end – and can you suspend your disbelief until it manifests?"
More information about Barry at: www.barrynicolaou.com.au
See Barry Nicolaou at Connections Fair in the workshop room - Part of Connections Fairs