BLASPHEMY OF NOT BEING CREATIVE
Our intended purpose on planet earth is to become what we can. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer refers to this
idea directly in his book, I
Can See Clearly Now.
“I was living what Maslow described as being a person who must
be what he can be,” says Dr. Wayne Dyer in chapter 40 of the book. The stress
in “can” isn’t mere an attempt to address our abilities. It is also an attempt
to address living from a ‘no-limit’ perspective.
It is possible to live
from the fullest extent of possibilities that we are given by nature of our
being. We are endowed with limitless imagination, the power to conceive without
involving our physicality, the ability to transcend every limit we encounter
due to the earthliness that is with us throughout our life on the earth, and
the capacity to love unconditionally. The moment we are ready to use at least
one or all the gifts given above, we can create infinite results with endless
joy and satisfaction.
Why should we be different in blogging?
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For the past few weeks, we have been discussing the The Rule of Three Cs, three
principles that enable bloggers to enhance productivity and establish their own
space in the vastness of ‘blog-sphere’. As you may already know, this article is
part of the Kindle version of The Indian
Commentator, titled, Unclassified
Intelligence (August-September 2014).
For those, who have been diligent in pursuing the outcome of this article that
I have shared in this space as a series, I am grateful. I have already shared
two Rules of Cs.
1. Consistency and 2. Clarity.
You can read the third, from now on. Here you go…
Creativity comes from the courage
to make mistakes. As a blogger, many readers have mentioned that my ways are
creative and engaging. Including Unclassified
Intelligence, the ideas I employed in order to make blogging more
attractive are many. The most successful of them all? Well, no doubt, it is Unclassified Intelligence, the ebook
avatar of my blog, The Indian Commentator. Early this January, I am also
planning to release an omnibus print edition of all the wonderful articles that
happened to appear in my blog during the year 2014 and before. Most of the
articles will be from my 2014 blog posts.
My intention is to keep all those
blog posts as a souvenir with me and anyone else who would want to collect
them. It will be a truly great collector’s edition for anyone who loves blogs
and the sense of freedom and spirit blogging inculcate in us. When I first
considered the idea of a book from blog posts, I felt like what this quote
below says.
“We have to continually be jumping
off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”― Kurt Vonnegut
It is this jumping off the cliff
that bloggers have to do each time, provided they should not take their eyes
off from Consistency and Clarity.
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As an Indian, I have a special
liking toward blogging. The concept of blogging—that is sharing a piece of
information or a piece for entertainment on a screen for everyone to see and
cherish—existed in India, even before the advent of the internet. Emperor
Asoka’s stone tablets and the temple murals in South India are some of the
remaining signs of those early blog posts. They are being read even today. It
is not just about reading those ancient writings. It is also about the
seriousness and respect with which we now see them. Those ancient “bloggers”
did their work consistently, clearly and creatively. Most Indian emperors
attempted to erect stone tablets and “stupas” in order to spread their ideas,
messages, and decrees. Their subjects saw these stone tablets, just like your
blog post have been seen and read by those many people, today. A blog post can
be accessed by anyone unlike a Facebook, Linked in, or twitter page, just like
those stone tablets or murals.
Being the first Indian blogger to have a
kindle ebook edition, I positively feel that blogging in India would surely go
a long way.
An
excerpt from Unclassified
Intelligence (August-September 2014).
Thank you for reading.
New article in the next post!
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