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Jul. 1st, 2002 12:34 amFrom here:
"The ability to apply knowledge to new situations is the most valued currency in today's economy," adds Zachary. "Creativity bestows more rewards than ever before. ... Highly creative people don't excel in raw brainpower or test taking. They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views and consider contradictory ones. ... This appreciation for paradox, not coincidentally, defines the mongrel mentality. The mongrel is a bundle of contradictions, metaphorically, and exists at odds with others actually. His heightened sense of difference -- of not fitting into molds -- reminds him that every worthwhile creation is at once an act of love (of difference) and an act of rebellion (against formulas, pat answers, imagined harmony.)"
I'm not sure about the use of the word "mongrel," I bet there are nicer-sounding words that express the same thing, but otherwise, this just fits. It fits both me (or the kind of person I aspire to be) and people around me.
"The ability to apply knowledge to new situations is the most valued currency in today's economy," adds Zachary. "Creativity bestows more rewards than ever before. ... Highly creative people don't excel in raw brainpower or test taking. They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views and consider contradictory ones. ... This appreciation for paradox, not coincidentally, defines the mongrel mentality. The mongrel is a bundle of contradictions, metaphorically, and exists at odds with others actually. His heightened sense of difference -- of not fitting into molds -- reminds him that every worthwhile creation is at once an act of love (of difference) and an act of rebellion (against formulas, pat answers, imagined harmony.)"
I'm not sure about the use of the word "mongrel," I bet there are nicer-sounding words that express the same thing, but otherwise, this just fits. It fits both me (or the kind of person I aspire to be) and people around me.
