Walt Disney Had Three Heads!
Lateral Action has an article detailing Walt Disney’s three “personalities”, which allowed him to be successful in both art and commerce:
- The Dreamer - the visionary who dreamt up ideas for films and business ventures.
- The Realist - the pragmatic producer who made things happen.
- The Critic - the eagle-eyed evaluator who refined what the Dreamer and Realist produced.
The article draws upon a book by Robert Dilts, who studies “Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) (which) explores the way people sequence and use fundamental mental abilities such as sight, hearing and feeling in order to organize and perform in the world around them.”
Quoting Dilts, “Walt Disney’s ability to connect his innovative creativity with successful business strategy and popular appeal certainly qualifies him as a genius in the field of entertainment. In a way, Disney’s chosen medium of expression, the animated film, characterizes the fundamental process of all genius: the ability to take something that exists in the imagination only and forge it into a physical existence that directly influences the experience of others in a positive way.”
So my only question is, which one of the heads got frozen?
