Listen into the Future
The ability to listen intensely
is a pathway to creativity
To be able to sense past the trivial, and get to what otherwise might be unheard

Every Quest starts with a Question



Cross with solid ground beneath you.
The view from here is enough to begin.
Take the steady way across. You don't have to know where it lands, only that it holds.
Set out!
The current might know more than you do. You are not swimming yet. just letting the water carry you a little.
Just plunge in !
and the journey reveals the answers
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Fog & Fire
Where are you in the creative process ?
Fog & Fire gives the creative a permission to stay in uncertaunty a little bit longer.
a way of describing the creative process bt using metafors of different landscapes like the woods, the cleaaing, the lake and the bog.

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Listen into the Future

When companies try to predict the future, they look. They look at past data, find patterns, project them forward. Weather forecasts work this way too. It works — more or less.
But notice: we say we are looking into the future when we are really only looking into the past, sorted differently. The metaphor has hidden itself.
What happens if we use a different sense?
The eye reaches further than the ear — I can see the moon, but I cannot hear an explosion on it. The ear, though, hears in every direction at once. What is behind us. Beside us. Approaching. In old cowboy films, the train whistles long before it appears on screen. The signal arrives ahead of the picture.
Shifting from looking to listening changes what you notice. Anecdotes, asides, the odd remark at the edge of a conversation — small signals of what is already on its way, hiding in plain sight. Not data to be sorted. Something quieter, already in the room.
This is not prediction. It is a different kind of attention.
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