![]() ![]() ![]() In Dreamer mode, Disney had the ability to immerse himself in his imagination, to the exclusion of everything else: (Walt Disney, ‘Growing Pains’ – 1941 article, reprinted in SMPTE Journal, July 1991) That’s what I like about this business, the certainty that there is always something bigger and more exciting just around the bend and the uncertainty of everything else. What I see way off is too nebulous to describe. Dilts, Strategies of Genius: Volume 1) The Dreamerĭisney the Dreamer could visualise extraordinary scenarios, for new business projects as well as animated films: The critic helps to evaluate and refined the products of creativity. The dreamer and a realist might create things, but they might not achieve a high degree of quality without a critic. A critic and a dreamer without a realist just become stuck in a perpetual conflict. A dreamer without a realist cannot turn ideas into tangible expressions. More important than the individual roles was Disney’s ability to strike the right balance between them:Ĭreativity as a total process involves the coordination of these three subprocesses: dreamer, realist and critic. The Critic – the eagle-eyed evaluator who refined what the Dreamer and Realist produced.The Realist – the pragmatic producer who made things happen.The Dreamer – the visionary who dreamt up ideas for films and business ventures.He substitutes the word ‘critic’ for ‘spoiler’, giving three distinct roles that Disney played, each of which involved a particular type of thinking and action: Robert Dilts uses this statement as the basis of a brilliant analysis of Walt Disney’s creative process, in his book Strategies of Genius: Volume 1. (Ollie Johnstone and Frank Thomas, The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation) You never knew which one was coming into your meeting. There were actually three different Walts: the dreamer, the realist, and the spoiler. Here’s the testimony of one of Disney’s animators: Later on, I discovered that the truth was even stranger. How could a single person be responsible for all of that? So it was hard to get my head around the idea that all those films were the brainchild of one man. A bit like Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. A cross between fairyland and a faceless corporation. To me, Disney was a mysterious entity, symbolised by the magical castle that appeared at the start of every film. As a child, I remember being shocked to learn that Walt Disney was a person. ![]()
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