{"id":6492,"date":"2013-04-01T16:07:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T20:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=6492"},"modified":"2013-04-05T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:41:30","slug":"living-in-creative-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2013\/04\/01\/living-in-creative-tension\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in Creative Tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garymacfadyen\/7146238315\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6541\" alt=\"photo credit gmacfadyen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MindtheGap.png\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MindtheGap.png 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MindtheGap-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a> In Peter Senge\u2019s book <em>The Fifth Discipline<\/em>, he writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>The gap between vision and current reality is a source of energy.<\/strong> If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap <strong>creative tension<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems to me that when we allow ourselves to be in the gap between our dreams and our reality \u2014 to live in our own creative tension \u2014 we find our self most ripe with the solutions we need.<\/p>\n<p>In this space we are living our questions, and the tense energy we create from &#8220;not knowing&#8221; activates our curiosity. This gap in &#8220;knowing&#8221; frees us to be the beginners we are.<\/p>\n<p>If we can learn to enjoy the tension \u201cnot knowing\u201d, and avoid those who \u201cknow\u201d without questioning, I believe we can create <strong>our greatest possibility to discover our answers<\/strong> and <strong>close our gap between what is and what could be<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garymacfadyen\/7146238315\/\" title=\"photo credit: garymacfadyen\">garymacfadyen<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garymacfadyen\/7146238315\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6541\" alt=\"photo credit gmacfadyen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MindtheGap.png\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MindtheGap.png 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MindtheGap-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a> In Peter Senge\u2019s book <em>The Fifth Discipline<\/em>, he writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>The gap between vision and current reality is a source of energy.<\/strong> If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap <strong>creative tension<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems to me that when we allow ourselves to be in the gap between our dreams and our reality \u2014 to live in our own creative tension \u2014 we find our self most ripe with the solutions we need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[119,193,200,198,201],"class_list":["post-6492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","tag-energy","tag-knowing","tag-magic","tag-not-knowing","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}