Music videos and performances are often spectacular and perfectly choreographed, and these performers go on tour and do the same routine just as they'd practiced over and over again, and the crowd is always intrigued. However, one also has to ask why does the human mind so enjoy improvisational music and dance?
Not long ago, I got on this topic with an acquaintance, a European Dancer, fairly well known in his country for a particular type of dance. Once could say he's perhaps, one of the best in his large metropolitan historical European city in that type of dance category. He noted that his best performances were those he'd thrown in some improve into the routine, and has since noted that due to the dynamics of the movements he's better off to allow for those slight changes and modifications.
Having a standard basic performance but changing the movements and making each performance never exactly the same, makes it more natural, flowing, and often much better, and well received by the sold-out crowds. Well, isn't this just the same philosophical argument one might make about perfection and flaws in nature? Who wants to look at a perfect tree, and then the next, exactly the same, and so forth? Would such a perfect world really be intriguing and enjoyable?
Sometimes it is the subtle differences that make the life experience so great. We discussed this for a bit, and I asked him if he ever seen the movie; Tron. You see, in Tron everything is perfect, orderly, actually too perfect, and then as the movie progresses and events occur, and conflicts arise everything gets out of control and the main character, played by Tony Bridges says; "Chaos, smile, this is a good day" - in other words, everything was chaotic and he'd become fed up with order, predictability, Gattaca'ism if you will?
Therefore, I agree that it's more natural to "never entirely be the same" - always variation, it's something I learned in franchising, the need to adapt to regional variation even though our franchise business model was fairly exact, but "exact" doesn't really work in the real world, it's not optimized, actually, it's less efficient, but I think few people get that and perhaps this gets back to schooling, test taking, rote memorization, it's just not right, and I think everyone inherently knows this, and yet, school and real life isn't a Six Sigma Black Belt Manufacturing strategy, the life experience doesn't work that way.
Indeed, I sure hope you've enjoyed this piece of philosophy here today. I ask that you please consider all this and think on it. Then, let me know your thoughts.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 23,500 articles by mid-day on June 23, 2011 is going to be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off..
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