Sublime

Piaget, J. (2001) The Psychology of Intelligence. London: Routledge.

the terrible lie has become the self-story, the tale that you must believe if you are to remain yourself.

If your attention is constantly managed by other people, how can it develop? How do you learn what fascinates you? How do you find your intrinsic motives, the ones that are so important to developing attention?

In books such as The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall, there is copious research about how story sets us humans apart from animals. Even in our dreams, our subconscious is busy ordering events into narratives.

The drive to play freely is a basic, biological drive. Lack of free play may not kill the physical body, as would lack of food, air, or water, but it kills the spirit and stunts mental growth … nothing that we do, no amount of toys we buy or ‘quality time’ or special training we give our children, can compensate for the freedom we take away. The th

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time, that expression is unique.”

“Every child is an artist,” Picasso observed.

If you “follow your bliss … you will begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you,” said Joseph Campbell,

the myth of the hero, a cross-cultural theme explored psychoanalytically by Otto Rank,