Động vật mới của bạn có thể có lông ngắn mượt như một con chuột chũi. Mặt của nó có thể được vay mượn từ một con gấu koala và cơ thể tròn âu yếm của mình từ một gấu túi. Nó là màu xanh trong màu sắc và màu xanh lá cây trong tính khí, nó không hôi vỉa hè hoặccông viên. | Make the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange KEYPOINTS The process of understanding anything or anyone unfamiliar foreign unnatural unaccountable - what is not already known heard or seen - is best begun by relating it by analogy to what we know already. But it should not end there. The reverse process of making the familiar strange is equally important for creative thinking. We do not think about what we know. Here artists can help us to become aware of the new within the old. No man really knows about other human beings wrote John Steinbeck the best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. Last night I thought over a thousand plans but this morning I went my old way says the Chinese proverb. Settled habits of thought over-addiction to the familiar will smother the dreams and ideas of the night. This morning you made a cup of tea or coffee and had your breakfast - the same as yesterday. But was it You will never even brush your teeth in precisely the same way as yesterday. Every minute is unique. The essence of the creative act is to see the familiar as strange. Anon 19 4 Widen your span of relevance To perceive things in the germ is intelligence. Lao-Tzu Farming in his native Berkshire in the early eighteenth century the British agriculturalist Jethro Tull developed a drill enabling seeds to be sown mechanically and so spaced that cultivation between rows was possible in the growth period. Tull was an organist and it was the principle of the organ that gave him his new idea. What he was doing in effect was to transfer the technical means of achieving a practical purpose from one field to another. .
