In my experience, artists, in the few times they’re right about stuff, always seem to be right for the wrong reasons. Their intellectual house is furnished in odd ways, which helps them to see things differently than other folks. Because the intellectual furniture is in weird places, they tend to stumble over things other people pass by without noticing.
So they figure out the what where others miss it, but the how and why totally escapes them. It’s probably because they use the same, weird logic they use to achieve their strangeness to instruct others how to be normal. The leader of World Party was right-handed, but turned a right-handed guitar upside down and played it lefthanded. Outre approaches like that lead to interesting results, but they’re not likely to be of much use at someplace mundane like the water department.
Then again, this is a downright sensible sentiment to deal with the Ship of Fools problem:
So the world might indeed end tomorrow. But Ship of Fools was recorded in 1986, and it hasn’t yet. Its composer Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger died last March.
It reminds me of something an economist once said. “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
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This article calls it “being lucky.” It’s a matter of taking one’s time, choosing an alternate route, relaxing focus just enough to bring the background and surrounds into play. That’s where the gold nuggets are.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3304496/Be-lucky-its-an-easy-skill-to-learn.html
(Might have to use removepaywall.com to read that without a toll.)
Seeing World Party here kind-of fits that. I overheard “All Come True” from a radio in a car-repair shop while checking on a flat fix. That was my only exposure to that song, as it didn’t chart (that AOR station didn’t care about charts). It took more than 30 years for the tune to ferment in my head to the point that I sought out the MP3. Now it sounds better than ever to me.