Carrying off from a debate I had this morning, what matters more? Passion or perfection?
Content or packaging?
Supposing there's this writer who is brimming with exciting theories/ideas, but he is not a good communicator and is unable to get his message across smoothly enough. Does that make him a good writer or a bad one? Is good writing just about a good idea or is it about style...
Similarly what if there's this guy who has extremely sound knowledge of a certain subject, but put a mike in front of him and he starts making grammatical errors and using wrong pronounication.
Is he a good speaker or a bad one? Is a great theory presented sloppily a bad one in the end...?
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
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Actually most "intellectuals" I have seen are sloppy dressers. They don't care about what they look like, all they care about is their thoughts and ideas. If I met a person who was intelligent but a sloppy overall package, I would try to change the exterior as much as I could. And If I couldn't do much more, I'd learn to live with it:)
In the end what matters most is what you prioritse in your life as number ones-- packaging OR content...
Precisely the point. When you make something (the creation, I mean), one needs to decide on WHAT to put and then HOW to put it.
While the HOW, in this case the writing style is more or less set by experience and mostly is difficult to change. So you see a writer has a set style. More habitual, so to say.
But the most important part of creation is the WHAT. It is this part that makes the difference between a "God of Small Things" and "Fountain Head".
(And once in while you get something like "The Matrix", but that should be considered an exception than a rule of new ages)
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Blue:
Einstien once when asked about his hairstyle, said that he doesnt trust a barber enough to allow one to take control of his head for 30 minutes for a haircut. What's the big deal? I have more important things to look into.
While the Einstiens and the Mahima Choudarys form the extremes, it is the ones that are midway who are tugged into this struggle of packaging self well enough to sell concept.
Unfortunately, this leads to fierce competitions as well as inferiority complexes. An LKG kid has to learn programming, guitar and tennis, as well as talk in pro-pah english and dance in front of guests when asked to.
See where it is leading one to. Defenitely not towards the Einstiens, I would say.
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A thought to ponder upon: in any big corporation, that deals in publishing etc, the marketing team is almost always paid higher--much higher--than the content team.
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