“Each thing we see hides something else we want to see,”*

Warren Berger warns that ‘well meaning people are always trying to solve a problem by answering the wrong question.’**

The wrong question is often an easier question.  Sometimes, we see someone in pain and, wanting to help them through this, we change the question – maybe not even seeing this is what we’ve done.

Our best work is uncovered in the places where we find ourselves wrestling with different questions, challenges, and demands, when we’re not prepared to go with the first answer, or rest on what we have done before.  Ed Catmull admits Toy Story 2 was going to be terrible: ‘The story was hollow, predictable, without tension, the humour fell flat.’^  Partners Disney were happy enough to let it go straight to video, but Pixar wanted to reach greater heights.

We all need our story to overflow with good things, to be unpredictable in the best possible ways, to have creative tension, and have plenty of laughter,

(*René Magritte, quoted in Erwin McManus’s Soul Cravings.)
(**From Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question.)
(^From Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc..)