I'm struck by the relationship paradox between the breakneck pace of Western media culture and creativity. "Creativity is a gift," John Lennon once said, "it doesn't come through if the air is cluttered."

And in closing what was a terrific weekend writing conference for poets, fiction, non-fiction, stage and screen writers presented by New Letters, a point was borrowed from author Milan Kundera about "the secret bond between slowness and memory, and between speed and forgetting."

By contrast, I witness how producing original or mash-up digital shorts is as effortless to what's provocatively and arguably called (by Bolt CEO Andrew Cohen) today's" most creative generation since the Renaissance," as crayonizing my Nancy and Sluggo coloring book was to my generation.

A recent chat I had with a veteran TV producer confirmed that most kids -- including all three of my teenage stepkids -- with even a hint of self-expression, access to a mobile phone or digital camera and the Internet have basic competence in filmmaking by the time they are 10 or 12.

Contemporary life is fast and cluttered for most of us. Yet for most anyone 16 and under, there is no other reality. I'm curious to see how art continues to evolve and morph among millenials. And if a longing for slowness will eventually catch up.

Does your mind ever feel cluttered? Do you, like me, ever feel overwhelmed by how quickly our world is changing -- and whether you're keeping up, even within what's happening in your industry? Are you prone to circular thinking?

Well, no wonder. According to health and longevity author Deepak Chopra, the average human has 60,000 thoughts a day. -- and 57,000 of those are the same ones you had yesterday.

There is a great piece here by Maya Talisman Frost who has studied great thinkers like Leonardo Da Vinci to understand what sets them apart from their contemporaries.

Her advice: treat a new thought like a guest.

As Aristotle said, "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."