What Is? or What IF?
Football season has tackled our attention. Across the country underdogs prepare to face self-proclaimed, or at least sports-prognosticator proclaimed, champions. In the locker room of every school fielding an underdog team you can hear echoes of a coach declaring, “We can beat them. You just have to want it more than they do.” Talent or passion? The question ranks right up alongside nature or nurture. Forecasters on the sports pages inevitably choose talent. Yet week after week the underdogs manage to produce those upsets which cause us to root for their success. What I know about football would fit inside a deflated pigskin. But when it comes to creativity, I choose to sit on the side of desire every time. Those with great ability have a great playbook, but it tends to concentrate on the tried-and-true. Their emphasis, even in creative endeavors, favors the “what-is!” Those motivated by desire provide the passion displayed by the football underdogs. Instead of being satisfied