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 Creativity and Goals Beta: We’ve touched upon this problem many times.

Kappa: Actually, we were on track many times, but were interrupted.

Alpha: Don’t blame me.

Kappa: It was not you. . . well. . . not only you. We interrupted our discussion to proceed with the list.

Alpha: Aha! Thus a goal can be disruptive!

Delta: Maybe there could be different goals?

Alpha: Look, like I said, suppose you go out to take a picture of your friend, OK? Then you see a beautiful flower, OK? But you pass it by because you have another goal and you miss. ..

Beta: I believe that picture you are going to take can be as beautiful. ..

Gamma: And so that flower can be forgotten, right?

Kappa: Alpha is right. A creator has to be ready. ..

Beta: Actually, yes, you don’t know for sure what happens in the end; it wouldn’t be creation otherwise.

Gamma: But this equally applies to both pictures! You don’t just “take a picture” if you want it to turn out well.

Delta: Thus, there has to be some sort of goal.

Kappa: OK, suppose you know what you want, I mean a picture. . . . OK, you have a goal. . . . You may even have two goals.

Delta: I know. Goal number one—to get something special on film. Goal number two—to make it beautiful.

Alpha: Here we go! Goal number three—to make it quick!

Beta: Of course—to catch the moment when one and two meet.

Kappa: Let me finish, guys. . . . Actually you helped a lot. But let me finish now.

Delta: Go ahead.

Kappa: What if you think about all three goals but still fall short? You click, click, click and nothing good comes out. What then?

Alpha: What then? You are a lousy photographer then. That’s it.

Beta: I got it. . . . You can know what you want, you can know how you want it, and you try to be quick, yet you fail because you do not have the skills. . . . Is that where you were heading, Kappa?

Kappa: Maybe,. . . I’m not sure. . . . Just asked because it’s kind of an obvious question.