{"id":4736,"date":"2017-08-25T18:13:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T08:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2017-08-25T18:13:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T08:13:06","slug":"finding-wonder-64-of-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/finding-wonder-64-of-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Wonder 64 of 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/64_finding_wonder_playful_mind_bill_watterson_quote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4737 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/64_finding_wonder_playful_mind_bill_watterson_quote.jpg\" alt=\"64_finding_wonder_playful_mind_bill_watterson_quote\" width=\"1596\" height=\"2316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/64_finding_wonder_playful_mind_bill_watterson_quote.jpg 1596w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/64_finding_wonder_playful_mind_bill_watterson_quote-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/64_finding_wonder_playful_mind_bill_watterson_quote-768x1114.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/64_finding_wonder_playful_mind_bill_watterson_quote-706x1024.jpg 706w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/64_finding_wonder_playful_mind_bill_watterson_quote-300x435.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1596px) 100vw, 1596px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Commencement speech given by Bill Watterson, the creative mind &amp; artistic talent behind Calvin &amp; Hobbes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Watterson, Kenyon College 1990<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With all due respect to John Stuart Mill, maybe utilitarianism is overrated.<\/p>\n<p>If I\u2019ve learned one thing from being a cartoonist, it\u2019s how important playing is to creativity and happiness\u2026At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you\u2019ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you\u2019ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you\u2019ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.<\/p>\n<p>For me, it\u2019s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I\u2019ve been amazed at how one ideas leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander. I know a lot about dinosaurs now, and the information has helped me out of quite a few deadlines.<\/p>\n<p>A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you\u2019ll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/finding-wonder-64-of-100\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1774],"tags":[2191,2193,2196,2197,2198,1781,2194,2192,20,2195],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/64_finding_wonder_playful_mind_bill_watterson_quote.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4738,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions\/4738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}