Wolfgang Hammer

Big or small, it doesn't mean, it can just be very, very small.

So I think that's probably as a foundational piece, the overcoming of obstacles, which then becomes in and of itself the reason for doing it.

There is no journey to go on without an obstacle.

So in that sense, I think it's essential.

Originality, I have this specific view.

I think very often successful people, I just heard an interview with a brilliant designer and he talked about originality and how it's so important.

And it felt like a status game that people play that when they do something great, that somehow it was entirely original so as to aggrandize their achievement.

And it's entirely possible that they felt that this was the case.

I think very often it's much more derivative and I think we should be much kinder to the notion of derivative.

And I think we should understand perhaps that originality is just another form of derivation, except it's one that perhaps hasn't been done quite in this way before.

Everything's been said.

Everything we've just said on this conversation and this conversation has been said before in some way by someone at some point.

It just wasn't maybe heard or it wasn't said in the right way that one specific person could hear it.

I think originality is in the same way.

Transformation is interesting because in the Greek poetic sense, it would be a transformation.

It would be the emergence of a new insight, a new power, which then creates a new kind of version of yourself or of the hero self.

And then lately, I've also added maybe in my mind this idea of the transcendental insight as enough.

James Joyce was all about this thing, the Joycean epiphany, the moment where the character accesses the universal truth, the transcendental truth about the world just for a brief moment.

And that's the end of it.

So even just the recognition, oh, this is how the way things really are.