[MD] BeTteR-neSs (undefined or otherwise)

[plattholden at gmail.com]

Hi Dan,
An inspiring description of the creative process that allows DQ to (eventually) 
shine through with a solution. Your narrative parallels others who have written 
about how they solved tough problems, so the technique seems to be 
transferable. Unfortunately, my default attitude is to remain lazy. For better 
or worse I've adopted by Dad's slogan of "Everything comes to him who waits."
Rather than put in a lot of effort, I take the easy way out. I let DQ come to 
me, like the advice given by Kafka:

"Do not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not 
listen, simply wait. Do not even wait. Be quiet, still and solitary. The world 
will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice and will roll 
in ecstasy at your feet."

Where we are alike is in the "bolt of lightning" effect and in the certain 
expectation that the solution will come, if not now, later. I think of DQ as a 
lady--if she feels my interest she will come to me. In the meantime, I just 
muddle along.and probably miss a lot. 

Best,
Platt 

      
On 2 Nov 2010 at 9:55, Dan Glover wrote:

Hello everyone

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:43 AM,  <plattholden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 Oct 2010 at 18:23, Dan Glover wrote:
>
>>Platt:
>> My answer to what is betterness is whatever improves responsivness to DQ.
>
> Dan:
> Yes I can go along with that. How do you improve your response to
> Dynamic Quality, if you don't mind my asking?
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> I try to remind myself to be aware of thoughts that come to me "out of the
> blue" so to speak. Not always successful because of the tendency to immediately
> assign such thoughts to what I already think I know, i.e., my static worldview.
> In painting, however, I react more to what I see rather than what I think. That
> seems to open me more to DQ's influence although even then, conformity to my
> own preconceptions of what constitutes "good" art gets in the way. If you have
> some ideas on how improve responses to DQ, I'd love to hear them. (Maybe the
> subject would be good for a separate thread.)

Hi Platt

When I am particularly vexed by some problem, be it how to fix the
small engine I am working on or how to get the story I am writing to
come out right, I do all the research I possibly can. I jot down every
possible solution in a little notepad I always keep in my pocket. Even
if it seems implausible, I jot it down anyway. I search the Internet.
I go to the library and read up on any similiar situations. I check
through old newspapers. It's amazing what one discovers. Then, when I
am super-saturated with knowledge, I just forget it all. That's why I
jot it down. So I don't have to remember. Then, I do something else...
anything, it doesn't matter. Sometimes days go by, sometimes weeks and
even months. But one day, out of the blue, when I am absorbed with
something else, maybe taking a walk and listening to the quiet or
sitting in the sun reading a good book, BLAM! Like a bolt of
lightning, I have the solution. I have no idea where it comes from.
But it is there. And of course I have my notepad handy to write it
down. Even if I am in the shower, I will towel off quick and jot it
down lest it evaporates.

It works for me and I have read where others have had success as well.
I can't say why it works but it does.

Thanks for asking,

Dan

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> Best,
> Platt .
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