How to Receive the Gift

How to Receive the Gift

            1.   I can’t speak for you, but it often seems my best ideas

                  come to me soon after I wake in the morning.

            2.   That’s not just from sleeping on it but is a whole

                  new blast or something else I’d put in abeyance earlier.

            3.   Sometimes the idea comes in a group when I’m

                  corrected for having the wrong idea for the right reason.

            4.   This is an example that a great idea won’t come of age

                  without debate.

            5.   The late Lewis Thomas, CEO of Sloan-Kettering, wrote

                  that new kinds of thinking require an argument

                  beforehand.

            6.   To have thoughts of your own that you care about deeply

                  is performance you owe others and yourself.

            7.   Do remember, to be truly receptive to the thoughts of

                  others is the back-story of creativity.

Idea

An idea—

one that enlivens,

that doesn’t preen,

that comes not

because you’re

abrainababble

but aware

you’re

enquiring . . .

not commanded.

Welcomed.

Received—

alone or

among many.

Is one

that can

give.

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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