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Oxymoronic Creative Hodgepodge

Thursday, December 31, 2009

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Oxymoronic Creative Hodgepodge

Once hearing “creative process”, my thoughts adhere to all those linearly challenged creative geniuses who can barely stay on-task 30 minutes unless gripped by that enigmatic zone frequently termed flow. Followed by an internal chuckle, this thought streams with ease to my bullet-pointed corporate process experiences so often responsible for stifling originality. From there, I quickly drift to George Carlin’s famous oxymoron comedy bit, or Seinfeld’s original observation about the words “head” and “cheese”. Similarly, it’s not apparent that the words “creative” and “process” should ever be next to each other for any reason.

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