{"id":28691,"date":"2022-09-03T13:41:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T20:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=28691"},"modified":"2022-09-07T17:39:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T00:39:07","slug":"are-ideas-discovered-or-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/are-ideas-discovered-or-developed\/","title":{"rendered":"Are ideas discovered or developed?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s a question I\u2019ve wrestled with as my career has crisscrossed from working in the corporate world to being a stay-at-home mom, college instructor, and now a church professional with a personal ministry involving writing, speaking, mentoring and creating. Over the decades, I\u2019ve gone back and forth between believing in the idea of a muse helping me tap into a consciousness greater than my own to putting all my effort into developing a concrete \u201csystem\u201d to guide my creative process. At different times, I\u2019ve seen the benefit of both.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The journey to today.<\/b><\/p>\n

Although I was a straight-A student, my need to achieve and perform overrode a more internal need to create and ideate. I dutifully studied for tests, wrote the way I was instructed, and stayed in the expected lane. While this was great for scholarships and initial career opportunities, it overshadowed an intuitive, creative element to my nature that didn\u2019t surface until much later in adult life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading and writing have always been important to me, but the purpose of those activities have varied widely. It\u2019s one thing to write because you love to write and quite another to get paid for your writing. Navigating the editorial and publishing process of an author\u2019s world has been an adjustment. With interests and passions encompassing so many genres, paired with an Enneagram 7 brain that makes connections between anything and everything, it\u2019s been challenging to find both a people and a path that validate and appreciate the beautiful chaos of my internal world. It\u2019s been even <\/span>more <\/span><\/i>challenging (and frustrating) to share the insights of that internal world with the external world.<\/span><\/p>\n

A path forward.<\/b><\/p>\n

The journey to the global leadership doctoral program at Portland Seminary has been an answer to prayer. After only one year, I already see how God is exposing me to new possibilities and the opportunity to level-up in how I digest information and ideas to offer them back to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a sporadic note-taker who tries to keep everything in her head, the idea behind slip notes described in <\/span>How to Take Smart Notes<\/span><\/i> was a profound revelation. A note-taking system that takes the work of thinking and manifests it into a physical activity makes so much sense to me. Notes can be so much more than a record of thoughts, they can actually generate thoughts! A goal of 5-6 note cards a day seems like a great goal for me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Steal Like an Artist <\/span><\/i>affirmed my experience that studying mentors (dead or alive) and exploring their<\/em> mentors is a critical component of the creative process. I take great comfort moving forward in this program knowing that there are no original ideas, but my original perspective and experience is valuable in presenting old ideas in new ways.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And finally, <\/span>How to Read a Book<\/span><\/i> freed me to read books in the way I need to read them instead of the way I always have.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, are ideas discovered or developed?<\/strong>
\nThe best ones are a bit of both.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s a question I\u2019ve wrestled with as my career has crisscrossed from working in the corporate world to being a stay-at-home mom, college instructor, and now a church professional with a personal ministry involving writing, speaking, mentoring and creating. Over the decades, I\u2019ve gone back and forth between believing in the idea of a muse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","cohort-dlgp01"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28696,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691\/revisions\/28696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}