The Creator Possessed By The Idea Of His Masterpiece
Conceive a creation that would draw sap from the primary flow of the basic ideas that guide you, so as to take hold of what defines you.
Eisenstein talks – for the moment, in general - about the joy of having at hand a very good script, he is conquered by its simplicity, and declares that his movie will be one about children and adults, for adults and children. However, the one who knows his antecedents, cannot be deceived by the linearity of this start.
His movies, becoming complicated constructions, always meet in their course a fiercely increased arborescence, however, organically, from the substance of the initial idea. It is like the plant eruption in the tropical Mexico, the luxuriant multitude of ideas flooding the whole area of creation, by drawing sap from the primary flow of the basic idea. There is always in the creation of Eisenstein this violent explosion of inspiration, which takes hold on everything, it amplifies in waterfalls, a thought calling dozens more, into a chain reaction, apparently unrestrained, and almost universal, but which is ordered rigorously on the guidelines of a precise mathematical conception of some rigorous pursued perennial preoccupations.
The stranger is the phenomenon, if we know - and we know it ! - That this creator, as if exclusively possessed by the idea of the movie, has always the power - and the need - to follow alongside any other ideas, different: theoretical abstractions, or just other movie projects.*
Are you served by the linearity of a start that focuses more on trying to develop a so-called "professional autonomy"?
If you try to make a way alongside the irreproachable concept, according to which the leadership possesses a certain kind of unity, based not only on knowledge, but also on the responsibility to be just yourself in everything you do and think, at any time of the ascension process, you will encounter a series of questions and fears. For always the decision to build a masterpiece of art, put in the service of progress, involves some explosive violence of inspiration, which takes hold on everything you are trying to highlight.
And precisely due to this aspect, often tested in practice, we can talk about leadership as about a need to shape art by the experimental classification of what you commit into a new form of perceiving what you want to offer. Moreover, especially of what it is relevant in applying the thinking. We distance ourselves a bit of this hypothesis and we assume that art is a kind of "restoration" of the man, meeting a different vision, which shows devotion to what it defines, taking hold on what initially appears a burst of joy and life.
The start that you give into leadership development is provided by the joy of having at hand a more simple and consistent way to build up new standards of style and performance. The simplicity is a real explosion of joy. However, this start cannot be activated before fulfilling the basic condition: Defending the professional autonomy against mediocrity (that you can defeat only with the undeniable value of a scientific thinking).
The idea that gives orientation to creation is an emanation of inspiration which is manifested in the form of a pulse that covers the distance from the theoretical abstractions to the forms of artistic expression of wonder towards everything you have achieved.
The leader is a creator, as if exclusively possessed by the idea of his creation, always having the power and the need to follow alongside any other ideas, different: theoretical abstractions, or just other research projects. If things stay like this, then the question arises: Helps him the art to intercept and understand the more comprehensive patterns of vocational adjustment to new requirements of personal transformation?
In general, I think so, but not in the way involving the act of creation and the personal appreciation. There is always in this act an explosive violence of inspiration, which takes hold on everything, including what we call "art". In this case, the leadership becomes a complicated construction, knowing always some variation in the configuration of its structure.
The leadership is focused on trying to develop in yourself a thinking that goes beyond the traditional thinking, by the act of creation, by the force of scientific creation taken until a definitive result for what you become.
The need to follow in parallel ideas other than your own denotes openness to knowledge, a certain sophistication of tastes for the new, a welcome thirst for expression, a certain amount of interest in what others think. You cannot mix two different meanings without getting a third meaning much closer to inventing an art of interpretation and transformation.
Professional autonomy is given by the very power of creation to exist and to produce effects on the guidelines of a precise mathematical conception of perennially and rigorously pursued preoccupations such as those artistic, ideological, and cultural.
Is what defines you the vision of a creation that is rich and is based in relation to the duration, actions and results of your innovation?
The creator possessed by the idea of his masterpiece is the leader, who brings on the professional level something completely personal with the power to overcome himself, creatively multiplying his spheres of knowledge.
If you want your leadership to get a broader value and meaning, if you want to take hold of what defines you, then conceive a creation to draw sap from the primary flow of the basic ideas that guide you. These ideas represent the leap from the extensive to the intensive phase that requires changing the pattern of thinking and the manner in which you express your vision.
* Note: Ion Barna - Eisenstein, Youth Publishing House, 1966.
