Constraints

No composer would present his orchestra with a blank scoresheet and expect them to play – not even John Cage.*

Creativity requires constraints. The blank sheet of paper numbs imagination.

• “Thinking outside the box”
• “Pushing the envelope”
• “Pushing boundaries”
• “Bending/stretching/breaking/re-writing the rules”

If you want the creativity, you have to create constraints people can work from.

Discipline makes daring possible.

*Cage’s box was for the audience, not the orchestra.