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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Everyday Canvas
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
David Whyte
This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
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Prompt: Do you think intentional daydreaming can help performance and achievement? And in what ways do intentional daydreaming and the mind's wandering differ from each other?
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How often do we daydream during the day? This is a good question to think about. I used to daydream a lot more when I was younger, but at my age, I see myself, in my mind’s eye, as doing and finishing the things I’ve noted in a list. Seeing myself in the action, somehow, quickens the jobs or whatever it is I might have planned. I guess this is what psychologists call intentional daydreaming. If so, yes, daydreaming could help performance and achievement. Intentional daydreaming may also work in the long run, as in life goals, book revisions for writers, or inventions in the making.
The mind’s wandering is not intentional, however. It just pops up on its own in a stream of consciousness about things that happened, people a person knows, or future apprehensions and fears. The mind also wanders more under boring conditions into content with fantasy, stuff to do, worries, and problems. Sometimes the mind sends messages similar to the pop-up ads that surface on the computer screen. All this may not be so bad for its entertainment value, but people who can control the mind’s wanderings usually have better attention spans and they are less worried about petty stuff.
On the other hand, for writers, artists, and inventors to let the mind wander may produce creative results if the haphazard wandering, at some point, can somehow be channeled into a specific context, which may mean letting intentional daydreaming take over the thought processes. As Sartre said, "“Before experimenting, isn’t it appropriate to know as exactly as possible on what one is going to experiment?”
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