Or a soufflé…I’m being creative here.
What is important is that only one side is made at a time and all the people involved in making the omelette work on that side at the same time. None of this division of labour stuff; you chop the onions and I’ll slaughter the lamb. Oh yeah, creativity can also be a 6-sided biblical sacrifice.
No, everybody does the same thing, one side at a time…and the order doesn’t really matter, because, well, these are metaphorical sides. So here it goes:
- Everyone focuses their emotions and feelings about omelettes, sacrifices or 6-sided sherpa…which creativity has now become
- Everybody does some information gathering about whatever it is creativity has become
- Followed by gushing about the positive values of the…well lets say it’s reverted back to an omelette
- An examination of the whole omelette-making process by everyone
- Then everyone passes judgement on the whole thing
- The key step which I kept for last is when everyone gets all creative on the omelette’s ass! Hmm, just goes to show that not all quotes from Pulp Fiction can or should be modified for other contexts.
To complete Step 6, any or all of the following could be used:
Random Stimulation. How much? Does it matter? And number times a random number is still random. Of course, this is only true if you are governed by Euclidean geometry. For those living in Lobachevskian space, the answer is 18.
Creative Challenge. Unfortunately, this is not a quiz show for people who write in hieroglyphs and speak only every other word. This has more to do with pushing one’s perceived notion of the - are we still at omelette? No, soufflé? Yeah, OK - it’s function and underlying meaning by removing some critical assumption about it.
Provocation. It’s good for making biblical sacrifices (yup, changed again), bad for armed police in 3rd world countries, king cobras and people who speak to canned food on trains.
So with this instant recipe for creativity in hand, why would one bother with creative people altogether? Fire. You need the fire creative people posess!
Fire to cook omelettes.
Fire to make the soufflé rise.
Fire to burn the sacrifice so the odour would be pleasing to God.
Fire to, umm, bring an ancient sherpa frozen in a glacier back to life?
So it can all be done without them but without creative people around, it all remains a bit, well, undercooked.
