Creativity will set you free!

For François Rabelais, father of literary hyperbole and the invention of language, great thinker of the Renaissance, humor is a liberation from the emotional states that obscure the knowledge of life; it serves to free the joyful truth about the world, a prisoner of falsehood and fear, which in turn generate seriousness, violence and so much suffering. For Rabelais the creative act passes through the movement from bottom to top. It is the material and bodily "bass" typical of medieval carnival representations which, with their licentiousness, had the power to free from fear and make the passage of time lighter, transforming it into the festive pleasure of a happy time.

Among my teachers I had Patch Adams, the American doctor clown, who with his "streak of madness" and a lot of courage helped to turn on the spotlight of scientific research on the relationship between mood and effectiveness of the treatment. Patch Adams also became "short" as a child among children; has brought forward a concept that could be summed up in this play on words: "medicine is not fun, but there is a lot of medicine in fun". He has dedicated his life not so much to fighting the shadows but to empowering and investing in light. He taught that if we enlarge the light area in our life, in fact the shadow area that is in us decreases proportionally. A positive balance also in terms of lightness, so precious especially today.

And speaking of hilarity and lightness, watch this video, the result of my "streak of madness". My contribution to medical science.

Read also the online monthly Positive Revolution. In each issue we host prestigious signatures. On the Editorial Board: the scientist Edoardo Boncinelli, the economist Enrico Giovannini and the physicist Roberto Cingolani.

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