And I think the archetypes can help us validate, too. If we recognize that we've been gathering for a long time, we can take a look and see if that's what our current project needs. Maybe so! And then we don't have to feel bad about continuing in that state. Or recognizing what condition needs to be met to transition to another state. It's such a useful framework, something I think can help focus and guide creative effort.
Josh, I agree. I think that a system that identifies what our current creative energy state is and we can recognize if it is serving our current needs, maybe we can lay off self-shaming for not being on the same page as everyone else.
I thought Lévi-Strauss just made jeans. Who Knew?
LOL. Thanks for giving me a chance to correct my oversight.
While I 'wear' both Levi Strauss and Lévi-Strauss - one was a clothing magnate and the other a French anthropologist.
Find out more about Claude Lévi-Strauss here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss.
Valdimir Propp was a Russian Soviet folklorist whose book, Morphology of the Folktale, I am currently reading.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp)
Mel, I appreciate your humor as much as the chance to mend the over-edit of who "Propp and Lévi-Strauss" were.
And I think the archetypes can help us validate, too. If we recognize that we've been gathering for a long time, we can take a look and see if that's what our current project needs. Maybe so! And then we don't have to feel bad about continuing in that state. Or recognizing what condition needs to be met to transition to another state. It's such a useful framework, something I think can help focus and guide creative effort.
Josh, I agree. I think that a system that identifies what our current creative energy state is and we can recognize if it is serving our current needs, maybe we can lay off self-shaming for not being on the same page as everyone else.