Creative Solutions and Inspirations from the Modern Day Muses

Muse Profile: Albert

Excerpted from the book The Nine Modern Day Muses and a Bodyguard: 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers, and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence by Jill Badonsky, M.Ed.

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Albert

MUSE OF
Imagination & innovation

MEANING OF NAME
After Albert Einstein

DOMAIN
Thinking differently, tools to trigger ideas

SYMBOL

HOW ALBERT CAN MUSE YOU
Albert, A Muse with an Attitude

THE SELECTION of ALBERT

“What did mortals need next?” thought the Muses about the continuing inspirational upgrade they were executing. They thought and thought and thought, and then they decided to stop thinking because it was getting monotonous. They needed a change in thinking. They started experimenting with words, sounds, images, associations, mirrors, and fusion. And new thoughts started percolating.

Soon afterward they said “Okay, enough already. Let’s quite dawdling.” They were just stalling, because stalling is an unexpected thing for a Muse to do. And that is what the next Muse is all about. Yes, he is about defying the obvious for the innovative, moving from the mundane to the magical. He is about surprises to the cerebrum. He inspires mortals to see with new eyes so that what they were used to seeing one way, can be construed in a much different way.

To get into the spirit of this Muse, protocols were broken and boundaries were stretched. Thus, this Muse is a male instead of a female. AND not only that, a mortal inspired the selection of this Muse in a realm where Muses usually inspire mortals. They giggled at this disobedient gesture of pure genius, and then I can’t remember which one, but one of them said “Well, we’ve got to throw in some surprises or else the mortal mind will stall in complacency when it could be cruising in possibility.”

All this, because from the psychic telescopes in the Muse Labs, they could see that those mortals often think as if they were confined within a little box. This is ironic because outside of the little mortal think-box side marked “This Side Up,” is a take-off ramp to the sky. It has been there all along. Some mortals have discovered it and used its power to reinvent their thinking. After meticulous scrutiny they found one such mortal. They decided that a German scientist, named Albert Einstein was the perfect mortal to inspire a Muse.

So, the next Muse is named and modeled after this mortal icon of innovation, imagination, and revolutionary thinking. Albert Einstein broke the rules, revered imagination, and believed that we had a choice to live life as if it were a full-blown miracle. Thus, we have Albert, the Muse.

BOTTOM LINE

We have the power to think differently about our lives as well as about creative thinking. In doing so, we create a deeper level of existence and a continual resource of ideas, solutions and attitudes that best reflect the unfolding of our authentic self. What we previously defined as mundane and has an element of amazing. Our lives fill with the magic and the miracles that possibility thinking can create. This is the physics of fulfillment.•

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Jill Badonsky, M.Ed. is a nationally recognized workshop leader, artist, performer, humorist, and author of the book, The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard): 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence. She teaches creativity lovers to facilitate classes and workshops based on her book and along with UCLA psychologist, Robert Maurer, she trains people to be Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaches. She can be found lurking at www.themuseisin.com.

12/13/06