Bohm speaks about how the ultimate drive of the scientist is to create some sort of order, a beautiful order by the use of science. The scientist that would like to walk the easy, untrue way to get pleasure might bypass correctness and only strive for an end. The real scientists however have got a drive to make something real and beautiful.
"..what he really is seeking is to learn something new that has a certain kind of significance: a hitherto (until now) unknown lawfulness in the order of nature, which exhibits unity in a broad range of phenomena. Thus he wishes to find in the reality in which he live a certain oneness and totality, or wholeness, constituting a kind of harmony that is felt to be beautiful. In this respect, the scientist is perhaps not basically different from the artist, the architect, the musical composer etc., who all want to create this sort of thing in their work."
I would like to say that science is as Blackfoot or English yet another language a form of expression to being able to express oneself and subsequently create.
Kids are seen as creative as we all have been there and started our lives by trying to walk, speak and jump... we have all succeeded by trial and error. If a kid doesn't know something it will try, just without being afraid to fail, discovering all things that are new. Many people look back at childhood with romantic shades being sad over the fact that it is over, a time in the past, a lost paradise. "Growing up" is something we all have to do and school is a big part of shaping us into being more responsible, doing things for an end goal and not for it being fun. You can't have fun all the time. . .
School starts to be more of a task at hand where one has to pass exams to please others like teacher and parents, learning is mainly conducted by repetition. Something happens with many kids at this time and some of the kids start to dislike school, the play and fun and learning disappear. Does it have to be this way? Is it good that it is this way? Most work places are the same, work for salary and do it by repetition. And is this what the society of today needs? Should we care what the society needs? And that need that the society is applying to us, has it turned in to a self-destructive pressure that creates more problems than opportunities. See I just wrote two distinctions. . . . black/white, problem/opportunities, maybe it isn't that simple,.. categorizing is difficult but it seems to make things clearer for communication in order to define what the spectrum of the greyscale is. Anyhow. . .
The undisputed freedom to try and fail that kids inherent is one definition of creativity. Adults envy that and feel that it is impossible to re-obtain. I would say that this is untrue. In the right environment one can regain these qualities. One workplace that is encouraging their employees to have that one part of creativity is an advertising agency that was voted best ad company to work for 2007, which I went to for a work placement interview this spring. Wieden + Kennedy.
This is from their blog:
As we get older, wiser and bigger we need to make sure that we don't lose our edge. We need to keep our thinking, our people and our environment fresh, provocative and surprising. In kim P's works, we want today 'wrong side of the tracks'. Because the craziness is what generates the big creative leap what makes this a stimulating, challenging, fun place to work. It can be difficult to remember this when you're working as hard as we have been recently. But we have absolutely no interest in turning into a big, boring agency. Still crazy (after all these years)? Let's hope so.
Keep the faith, true believers!
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