During the conversation with Becky and Sarah about innovation, enterprise and skills on 15th July, we hit on two themes we wanted to explore further; how can we use stories to capture the journey of ideas and how we craft ideas into shape (pan for gold)?
Thinking about these two themes, we talked about the importance of space. It can be hard to find or be given the space to dive into an idea once we decide we have struck gold. The journey of an idea can be difficult and we need to be able to try things out, get things wrong and see things in a new way.
Aha, we thought, just like Alice in Wonderland! Alice is determined to follow the curious white rabbit, not knowing or even thinking about where it would lead. She enters Wonderland and her little world of experience is turned upside down.
Nothing is as it appears to be, or as she thinks it should be. Everything is new and unexpected. Butterflies are bread and butter flies, caterpillars talk, and we celebrate unbirthdays rather than birthdays. It can be daunting and chaotic and there is often no rhyme or reason for why we follow an idea so faithfully. But the wonderland of ideas is also a place where anything is possible and we are given presents of things we already have, but didn’t know we have.
In Alice’s case, the adventure ends in her waking up from a strange dream “wake up Alice!” but you and I know that once we have had such experience, the way we see things and the things we want to do because of what we have seen, will never be the same again.
Thinking about these two themes, we talked about the importance of space. It can be hard to find or be given the space to dive into an idea once we decide we have struck gold. The journey of an idea can be difficult and we need to be able to try things out, get things wrong and see things in a new way.
Aha, we thought, just like Alice in Wonderland! Alice is determined to follow the curious white rabbit, not knowing or even thinking about where it would lead. She enters Wonderland and her little world of experience is turned upside down.
Nothing is as it appears to be, or as she thinks it should be. Everything is new and unexpected. Butterflies are bread and butter flies, caterpillars talk, and we celebrate unbirthdays rather than birthdays. It can be daunting and chaotic and there is often no rhyme or reason for why we follow an idea so faithfully. But the wonderland of ideas is also a place where anything is possible and we are given presents of things we already have, but didn’t know we have.
In Alice’s case, the adventure ends in her waking up from a strange dream “wake up Alice!” but you and I know that once we have had such experience, the way we see things and the things we want to do because of what we have seen, will never be the same again.
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