Good Good Good

In which Ken continues to riff on Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto. Today, #2:

2. Forget about good.
Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.

This is excellent because it broadens the definition of growth; I love the phrase, "an exploration of unlit recesses". Here we discover that growth – becoming more open, more encompassing – requires digging in the dirt even if that produces nothing of apparent value. We grow beyond our preconceptions by digging precisely where they shed no light. That bare, creative act is inherently valuable and it contains the seeds of possibility.