By Olumide “King Olulu” Holloway
Little too much of reading books on ideas generation and watching TEDx lectures got me thinking.
Thus, I’ve some questions to sow in your mind. The main scope of this is that there are no right or wrong answers. This process is called “frame and re-frame” and all what it entails is switching things around to get multiple options/ answers.
if we say 7 + 7= X, we have just one answer, right? Do correct me if I’m wrong, my maths is not perfect.
Instead of having just one generally acceptable answer, we can choose to frame and re-frame the question so we have multiple answers. So by framing and re-framing, it will look like this:
X + Y = 14
Thus, we would have multiple answers such as 7+7, 13+1, 12+2, 20+(-6), 14+0 etc. This process helps to change perspectives and we shift from one answer to many options.
Now bringing it closer home, lets talk about Spoken Word Poetry, Instead of thinking money, money, money as the only resource we need to push this art form forward, we can ask questions like these:
1.How do we create awareness about Spoken word poetry?
And re-frame into this
How do we use spoken word poetry to create awareness?
2. How do we get funding for spoken word poetry?
How can spoken word poetry provide us with funding?
3. How can we get 1 million people talking about Spoken word poetry?
How can Spoken word poetry get 1 million people talking?
4.How can people add value to spoken word poetry?
How can spoken word poetry add value to people?
5. Is money the only resource we need to grow Spoken Word Poetry?
What are other resources we can use to grow Spoken Word Poetry?
The truth is, the resources we need to push this art forward are: time, people, information, knowledge, information and maybe, money.
I say, “maybe money,” cos money is what you get for adding value to something or to people. Money follows value, so add value and you get money.
This is why success is not a result of making money, making money is the result of success.
I hope I’ve been able to arouse your mind, stimulate your brain and get your creative juice flowing.
Hopefully, you will climax 🙂 .
Do let’s try to provide answers to the above questions.
But remember, there are right or wrong answers, just multiple options that allows us to make “un-useless inventions,” creative mistakes or eloquent failures, instead of boring success.
I will be back to learn from your answers.
The King not from Zulu, the one and only Olulu.