{"id":1817,"date":"2024-12-31T18:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T14:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2024-12-31T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T14:02:07","slug":"make-no-mistake-human-beings-are-rough-drafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/31\/make-no-mistake-human-beings-are-rough-drafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Make no mistake: human beings are rough drafts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our zeitgeist will not have it any other way. Complete.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That is far from the reality and we remain tricked by the &#8216; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>tyranny of completion<\/em> <\/span>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reality though is vastly different. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>H<u>uman beings are rough drafts that continually mistake themselves for the final story, then gasp as the plot changes <\/u><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><u>on the page of living. @Maria Popova!<\/u><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Far from complete.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is our ego, a benchmark that we have of ourselves, the stories that we tell ourselves and the world at large, a passive succumbing to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>facades of coherence and continuity<\/em><\/span>, that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>leaves us moored to what is a static idealized self<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Without much effort we are willing captives of comfort in our thoughts or feelings ; victims of certainty- a supreme narrowing of the mind. But, \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>When nothing is sure, everything is possible\u00a0<\/em>\u201c<\/span>&#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Margaret Drabble<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Fait-Accompli.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2313\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The assertion here, however, is that\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>there really is no creativity without uncertainty<\/em><\/span>. Put another way:\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">dubito ergo creo<\/span>.<\/em>\u00a0This is Latin for,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>I doubt therefore I create<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More here on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/31\/creativity-the-certainty-of-uncertainty\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Creativity &amp; The Certainty of Uncertainty<\/em><\/span><\/a> !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Our zeitgeist will not have it any other way. Complete. &nbsp; That is far from the reality and we remain tricked by the &#8216; tyranny of completion &#8216;. &nbsp; The reality though is vastly different. Human beings are rough drafts that continually mistake themselves for the final story, then gasp as the plot changes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/31\/make-no-mistake-human-beings-are-rough-drafts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make no mistake: human beings are rough drafts&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}