Sunday, August 9, 2009

Symphony Connections

In Daniel Pink's new book, A Whole New Mind, he explains six new senses to help expand into the new age. The sense I decided to research more on is the symphony sense.
One suggestion that Pink gave was to create an inspiration board. I decided to try this out and see what connections I could find.
I took several little random items from my room and put them in a box over the course of a few weeks. At the end of the time, I looked at everything to see if there were any obvious or hidden connections between the items.
The more I looked at these items, I found out that they did have a broad connection. Music. In the box there were sheets of old music from band, tickets from concerts I have been to, CD covers, and small awards I have received from different musical events.
This little experiment really helped me to see different patterns in my everyday world. I now have a larger box that I keep next to my bed and anytime I have a piece of junk, or so it would seem to anyone other than myself, I place it in the box to see how the things I do in my life relate. Maybe you should try it to.