Sunday, 18 October 2020

Mysterious Inspiration

 


Most of us have experienced inspiring moments when a great idea appears out of the blue. Most of the most of us then doubt and muse in disbelief, and the great idea vanishes until discovered by someone else. Creativity depends on execution as well as inspiration.


Compared with ‘deductive or analytical intelligence’ such as the ability to figure out five plus six after learning one plus one, creativity is abstract, even mysterious and spiritual. Spiritual? Yeah, seriously.


创意灵媒


很多人都經歷過如有神助的「靈感」一刻,及時把握的話可以引發「創意」。但捕捉「靈感」並不容易,猶疑之間,「靈感」隨時消失,只留下輕微熱量隨著腦電波逝去。由「靈感」帶動的思潮與一般思考不同,屬「創意」範疇,並非抽絲剝繭的邏輯分析。


「靈感」哪來的呢?「靈感」一詞雖然經常被亂用濫用,但實際上就如字面所說,是「靈性的感覺」,是形而上的「靈機一觸」。有那麼玄?有!簡直玄之又玄!


英語的 inspiration,同樣神秘。據說 inspire 一字,源於上帝含著「阿當」用灰塵造的鼻子,一口氣把靈魂吹進他體內,中東人的始祖才開始「有肉有靈」,正式做人。上帝把當爺爺的「灰塵鼻」放嘴裡肯定需要愛心支持,而「塵化人」這一招創意無限,沒有靈感的人是無法想象出來的。看來,我們的祖先,不分中外,都比現代人更瞭解「靈感」的本質。