Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work

When he got the chance, he expressed what he had learned, not

by taking a paper-and-pencil exam, but by heating and pounding

a piece of iron.

Many steps in an artful making process will demand Hugh’s kind

of ancient “thinking” and “learning.” The task, the experience, is

incommensurate with language, with intellection. It isn’t a ques-

tion of being too complicated to put into words. It’s more than

that. Something about it is un-word-able. The same thing applies

to the processes of focus and release, of finding and exploring

your edges. To tell you about focus and release, we’ve suggested

an exercise of focus and release. If you read the instructions ...