In addition to feelings that stimulate creative activity, there are feelings that hinder creative efforts. The most dangerous enemy of creativity? fear. It is especially manifested in people with a rigid mindset for success. Fear of failure stifles imagination and initiative.

Another enemy of creativity? excessive self-criticism. Accurate measurements in this area are not yet possible, but there must be some “balance” between giftedness and self-criticism so that too picky self-esteem does not lead to creative paralysis.

The third enemy of creativity? laziness. However, such an argument is also possible here. People strive to improve production in order to increase its productivity and reduce costs. Are they driven by the desire to have the maximum benefit with the minimum effort, in other words, to work less? receive more. It turns out that laziness serves as a stimulus for all innovations that facilitate work, and therefore is the "true mother of inventions", in the words of Norbert Wiener.

Despite all the temptation of such reasoning, we still have to admit that laziness does not at all contribute to creative activity. Just as the natural enjoyment of food can lead to gluttony and gluttony, so the enjoyment of rest and peace can acquire a self-sufficient value. The "feast of laziness" becomes a highly valued pleasure. It can be seen that not one talent was ruined by laziness.

uncritical acceptance of someone else's opinion (conformity, conciliation)

external and internal censorship

Rigidity (including the transfer of patterns, algorithms in solving problems)

Desire to find an answer immediately

Dialogue of creative thinking

To understand creativity means to understand the mind of the creator, but not to describe (or prescribe) how to create. The most terrible of all is such a creature, unable to invent, but knowing “how it is done”. There is only one way to catch the inner life of the inventor of ideas and poems - through the mental dialogue of inner "I".

The creative process includes psychological, emotional, uniquely personal, paradoxically random moments. But we must, nevertheless, agree with the possibility of finding, even through the logic of the internal dialogue in the head of the creator - to depict, to understand creativity as a logical process. But how can one agree with this, because there is no logic in creativity (more precisely, creativity cannot be the subject of the science of logic). Thinking as creativity is artistic thinking, and it is radically illogical!

Thinking is always theorizing, and the essence of any creativity as thinking can be understood only on the basis of theorizing processes. The initial setting of thinking (a situation when thinking is necessary, when sensation and representation cannot be dispensed with) is the need to reproduce in consciousness the possibility of an object, something that does not yet exist, is not given in sensations, but that can exist in some ideal, invented situations.

Thought arises when it is necessary to reproduce in consciousness (internally, for oneself) the possibility of an object in order to “understand” the object as it is, why it exists in this way and not otherwise. It is this “in order to” that makes us use the verb “understand”, which cannot be replaced by any other verb, made us define thinking through thinking (understanding). Understanding is the difference between thought and representation. It is quite possible to imagine the future possibilities of an object, but to turn them to the object as it is, to take them as an “X-ray” of an existing object is possible only by understanding, comprehending, only in a concept. The separation of the “essence of things” (their potentialities) from their being means the construction in the mind of an “idealized object” as a “means” to understand a real object that exists outside of our consciousness and activity. The eye loses focus; see two objects at the same time? inside us and outside? impossible, we stop seeing and begin to understand. Such a simultaneous existence of one? knowable, changeable? object in two forms (in the form of an object of idealization and in the form of an idealized object) is the initial definition of thinking, which is rooted in the very "indivisible core" of human practical activity.

The primitive man began to think, painfully correlating the “idealized object” (the alleged ax), still completely vague, indefinite, still identical to the idea, with the real, external object (a fragment of stone), rechecking these objects with each other. In the discrepancy between these two objects, in the gap between them, in the necessity and impossibility of their coincidence, the seed of thought is placed, thinking grows. This is the original idea of ​​theorizing.

In thinking, I fix, fix the subject of reflection as something that exists outside of thought and is clarified by it, as something that does not coincide with thought (an idealized object). Only then is it possible to constitute thought itself as something that does not coincide with real practical action, although it does constitute it? practical action necessary definition. But this is the initial assumption of the theory. "It's only in theory, not in reality"? such an accusation constitutes the negative definition of thinking. And at the same time a fundamental paradox of thought.

It is possible to feel, imagine, perceive something, but it is possible to think only about something. In sensations and ideas, I merge with the object of my sensation, I feel the blade of a knife as my pain. In thought I separate myself from the object of thought, I do not coincide with it. But the whole point is that an object that does not coincide with thought is an object of reflection; it exists for thought only to the extent that it correlates with the thought object. And at the same time, it is something "unthinkable", outside of thought (outside of me and independently of my consciousness) existing, given to thought as a riddle and never fully assimilated by it. It is in thought that I am opposed to the being of things in their "metaphysical" wholeness, their closedness "on themselves," their being outside the subject. But at the same time... The fairy tale about the white bull can continue indefinitely.

Of course, the logic of practice forms the rational basis of the paradox under consideration, but now we are talking about something else, since in thinking,? What is his “mission”? practice just acts as a paradox, constantly resolved, reproduced and deepened ... One can even say that thought is practice in its paradox.

Theoretical creativity is the invention of any ideas, any, the most grotesque idealized objects in order to understand the object as it is (or as if it were), outside my practical activity and independently of it. The striving for the transpersonal, suprapersonal—this is what the pathos of thinking consists in. Only in the removal (theoretically in its potency) from oneself does it become possible to treat oneself as an “alter ego”, the seed of an internal dialogue appears. Poetry is radically non-dialogical, as Bakhtin wrote very accurately. That is why the internal dialogue of thinking as creativity is possible only for the theoretical mind. It is no coincidence that creative thinking should be taken as the subject of logical research as theoretical thinking, as an internal dialogue of the theoretician. It should be the language (speech) of the internal dialogue, in which there is a continuous mutual circulation of texts, their polyphony, counterpoint, and not just coexistence.

Approaching his logic from the outside, the philosopher faces a paradox. The philosopher has to criticize his own logic (logic as a whole) in the name of some logic that does not yet exist, is in the state of becoming. Here, the logic of creativity can only be understood as the creativity of logic... What remains of that iron logic, and why is this “dialogic” needed at all, this verification of “logic” by “logic”?

Isn't this whirling of the squirrel of thinking in the wheel of "dialogic" simply an escape from life, from practice, from Goethe's old wisdom - "theory, my friend, is sulfur, but the tree of life is eternally green..."?

Only in the communication of "I" and "YOU", in the relationship "between" the new is born. In other words, the nature of creativity is dialogical and non-subjective. Personality is not the center and source of creative activity, since it expresses a pluralistic (rational and irrational, rational and emotional, etc.) existence. The personality is creatively active only in a dialogical relation to the “Other”. The dialogic relation is transformed into "WE" as a dual existence of "I" and "YOU", directing its creative intentions to a separate "I" and "YOU". "I" is not a source of creativity, it finds creativity in itself as a creative intention of "WE". The productive ability of the dialogic situation, which appears in the subject-transsubjective relationship "I" - "YOU" - "WE" becomes a source of novelty for the individual. Otherwise, creativity can be defined as the implementation of the creative intention "WE" - reality in the personal reality of the subject

Norway is famous for its numerous travelers. The most famous of them, who made the greatest contribution to geographical and other sciences, are Eric the Red, Fridtjof Nansen, Roald Amundsen, Thor Heyerdahl and others.

Eric the Red (950--1003) - navigator and discoverer, who founded the first settlement in Greenland. The nickname "red" was due to the color of his hair and beard. Father of Leif and Thorvald Eriksson, the discoverers of America.

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) - polar explorer, zoologist, founder of a new science - physical oceanography, politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1922.

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) - polar traveler and explorer. First person to reach the South Pole (December 14, 1911). The first explorer who made a sea passage through both the Northeast (along the coast of Siberia) and the Northwest sea route (along the straits of the Canadian archipelago). He died in 1928 during the search for the expedition of Umberto Nobile.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910). Poet and politician. Author of the Norwegian national anthem and Nobel Prize in Literature (1903).

Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943). His sculptures are expressive and monumental. In 1924, the city of Oslo commissioned the artist to design a 32-hectare park. Now there are 650 sculptures flaunting there to the delight of lovers of beauty, and the park itself has become a landmark of the capital.

Knut Hamsun (1859-1952). Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1920). In his works he created a hymn to untouched nature and patriarchal life, tirelessly scourged capitalism. He was convicted for collaborating with the Germans during World War II.

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). Romantic composer, pianist and conductor. The author of classical music, who developed his own style, which is marked by the seal of melancholy and the charm of folk melodies. He embodied in music all the magic of Ibsen's famous play "Peer Gynt".

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906). Poet and playwright. Not understood in his native country, he settled in his youth, first in Italy, and then in Germany. Having set himself the majestic goal of showing a new path of development for his people, he weaves social and political theories, as well as philosophical reflections into his plays. The most famous plays are "Peer Gynt", "Nora", "Hedda Gabler".

Edvard Munch (1863-1944). The most famous Norwegian painter and graphic artist. He stood at the origins of expressionism. His canvases are among the most expensive works of art of the 20th century. Creativity is marked by longing, loneliness, jealousy and obsession with death. The most famous works are "The Scream" and "Madonna".

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930). Scientist-naturalist, traveler and politician. He became famous for two unparalleled travels for his time. In 1888, he was the first with five companions to cross Greenland on skis. Then in 1893-1896. drifted in the high Arctic latitudes on the Fram ship and, from 83 ° 24 "N, made a daring attempt, together with a satellite, to reach the North Pole on skis and sledges (1895-1896). His contribution to the development of world oceanography is enormous. After During the First World War, Nansen played a significant role in organizing humanitarian aid, including the starving in Russia.Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1922).

Sondr Norheim. Born in the Telemark region. Considered the father of skiing. He invented the principle of rigid attachment (c. 1870) and much more, which made possible all subsequent achievements in this sport.

Liv Ullman (b. 1938). Actress. She made her debut in the film "Anne Frank" (1957). Repeatedly played the main roles in the films of Ingmar Bergman, whose wife she was ("Persona", "Married Life", "Autumn Sonata"). Wrote a magnificent autobiographical novel "Become". Recently, she herself has shot, already as a director, two films: "Sophie" (1992) and "Kristin, daughter of Lavrans" (1994) based on the book by Sigrid Unset.

Sigrid Unset (1882-1949). Writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1928). The most famous book is the trilogy "Christine, daughter of Lavrans". All her life she took an uncompromising position in relation to the feminist movement, which she considered decadent.

Thor Heyerdahl (1915-2002). Ethnographer and zoologist, known for his scientific expeditions on the raft "Kon-Tiki" and the papyrus vessel "Ra". Described his travels in popular books.

Sonya Henie. An outstanding figure skater who has won 10 world championships and three Olympic gold medals. Hollywood star who invented a new kind of show - ballet on ice. She built a large cultural center with a museum on the outskirts of Oslo. Russians remember her from the movie "Sun Valley Serenade".

Edvard Hagerup Grieg
For many Russians, the name of this Norwegian evokes nostalgic childhood associations: a portrait of a man with thick sideburns in a school music room, the melodic Solveig Song and the growing whirlwinds of sounds from In the Hall of the Mountain King. The author of "Peer Gynt", according to which children are taught the basics of music, is considered the most respected national composer in his homeland, a kind of Mozart of Scandinavia (after all, Grieg began writing at a very young age). He was very lucky with his mother - she was the best pianist in the city of Bergen and made little Edward play scales for hours. Although Grieg studied in Europe, he drew material for creativity from Norwegian folklore: fairy tales, songs, legends, dances and the nature around him. Grieg's great friend, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, wrote about the works of the Norwegian: "In his music, imbued with enchanting melancholy, reflecting the beauties of Norwegian nature, sometimes majestically wide and grandiose, sometimes gray, modest, wretched, but always incredibly charming for the soul of a northerner, there is something close to us, dear."
Grieg did not like pathos and officialdom very much. According to legend, the king of Norway awarded Grieg with an order, which was presented to him in the palace by one of the princes. The embarrassed composer thanked the representative of the royal family, but not knowing where to put the award, he didn’t think of anything better than putting the order in the back pocket of his trousers than inciting the monarch’s resentment.
Grieg's muse throughout his life was his wife, Nina Hagerhup, who was the composer's cousin. At their wedding, the play "Ingrid's Complaint" (included in the "Peer Gynt" suite) was played, one of the most frequent works performed by orchestras around the world. Grieg devoted four songs to his wife - "Melodies of the Heart" to the verses of their common good friend, Hans Christian Andersen.
Henrik Ibsen
This man not only inspired the composer Grieg to write music for his large-scale work "Peer Gynt", but is also rightfully considered the founder of modern drama. Literary critics have counted in Norway alone more than 200 writers who created works for the theater, radio and cinema and considered themselves to be Ibsen's school. It is not known how his fate would have developed if in 1836 his father, a wealthy Norwegian businessman, had not gone bankrupt. Maybe the son would follow in his father's footsteps and become a respectable bourgeois, one of those whom he scourged on the pages of his books. Young Ibsen began his career as a playwright and writer among bottles and powders, working part-time in a pharmacy. As the author himself later admitted, he was forced to take up the pen by the events of the late forties of the 19th century, when a wave of revolutions swept across Europe. Success comes to him almost instantly, he had almost no competitors in Scandinavia at that time. In addition to creative talent, Ibsen also possessed organizational talent: in 1852 he founded the first national Norwegian theater in Bergen (still in operation), and a few years later he headed the capital's theater. Contemporaries noted the duality and capriciousness of Ibsen. For example, the main place in his dramas, according to which experts study the Norwegian life of the 19th century, is occupied by events in his native country, although he spent more than 27 years - his most fruitful period - in Rome, Dresden, Munich, motivating the choice of residence with a warmer climate. It is worth noting that the son of Henrik Ibsen Sigurd was a well-known politician and journalist.
Knut Hamsun
One of the most controversial famous Norwegians. His life was like an ice slide - he climbed it, then rolled down. The Nobel Laureate in Literature grew up in the Arctic Circle. In childhood and adolescence, he changed a lot of professions: shepherded cows, worked as a farmhand, an apprentice at a shoemaker, a shop assistant, a road worker, a school teacher and a sheriff's assistant. In adulthood, Hamsun will say that if he had had a second life, he would have lived just like that - after all, some of his books are autobiographical, and he drew the images of heroes from personal experience. Perhaps Hamsun would not have become a great writer, but remained a farm laborer in the United States, where he left, as it seemed to him, forever, if not for his illness. In the favorable climate of Minnesota, Hamsun caught a severe bronchitis, and the doctors mistakenly diagnosed him with tuberculosis. Hamsun returns to his homeland, and in Norway all the symptoms of the disease disappear, after which the most active period in the writer's work begins.
Norwegians love Knut Hamsun very much, but remember with sadness how the writer openly supported Hitler's rise to power in Germany, and even met with fascist leaders when his country was occupied. Thousands of readers returned the book to the author in protest. After the war, Hamsun was tried, sentenced to a large fine for collaborating with the enemy, and even kept in a psychiatric clinic for some time. At the same time, Norwegians prefer not to talk about this, but about the literary merits of the author, about the fact that, along with his books, he stood on a par with world classics.
Edvard Munch
Munch was famous in Norway and among art historians, but the name of the painter thundered all over the world when two of his canvases, "The Scream" and "Madonna", were stolen from the Oslo Museum. For Norway, this was truly the kidnapping of the century. A variety of versions of the theft were put forward, even exotic ones - the kidnapping was allegedly organized by a Norwegian mafia who settled on the Spanish coast. The paintings have not yet been found.
Munch hated any superficiality, and always sought to comprehend what is happening in the human soul, how he sees the world, and to transfer these feelings to the canvas. That is why Edvard Munch never painted portraits of people with whom he was not on friendly terms, whom he did not understand - even if they offered very large sums of money. His portraits are an exploration of the human soul. So he wrote August Strindberg Ibsen and Hamsun, making an exception only for the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - and even then Munch was closely acquainted with the philosopher's sister. Late in his life, he struggled with a rare eye disease that forced him to give up painting.
Fridjorf Nansen
The most striking example of how the love of skiing, instilled in Norwegians from childhood, can lead very far. Nansen's mother went with him and his brother on multi-day forest winter hikes. Tempering was useful to Nansen later, when he drifted among the Arctic ice. Starting at the age of 20 as a simple sailor on ships that sailed the Arctic Ocean, Nansen was the first to sail along the coast of Greenland. However, the fame brought him a three-year drift in the ice of the Arctic on a specially designed vessel "Fram". Frozen in the hummocks, "Fram" with the team proceeded from the New Siberian Islands to the land of Franz Josef, where the expedition members spent the winter in inhuman conditions in tents made of seal skins.
In addition to being a scientist, oceanographer, and outstanding traveler, Nansen was also an active philanthropist and public figure. The Norwegian was the High Commissioner for Refugees of the League of Nations and established the Nansen Passport Office. In 1922 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. There was no family in his active life, but thousands of Jews rescued during World War II, who received refugee passports issued by his bureau, considered themselves children of Nansen.
Thor Heyerdahl
This great Norwegian became one of the prototypes of the Hollywood "Indiana Jones". A former military man, a scientist who did not like to sit in the dust of offices, he proved his theories in practice, traveling, as ancient people did. His claim that the Pacific Islands were once inhabited by Indians from South America was ridiculed by fellow geographers. Then Heyerdahl and five of his associates built a copy of the raft of the ancient Peruvians and, naming it after the legendary leader of the tribe - "Kon-Tiki", 8 thousand kilometers of water from Peru to Polynesia passed along the proposed route of the ancient Indians. The expedition lasted 101 days - Heyerdahl and his team emerged victorious. A few years later, his papyrus boats "Ra" and "Ra-2" passed through the Atlantic Ocean - the Norwegians proved the possibility of the Egyptians penetrating the American continent thousands of years before the official opening of the mainland. He was incredibly lucky: he discovered a whole valley of ancient pyramids in Peru, and he also discovered the tombs of ancient Indians in the Canary Islands. Heyerdahl was also noted in Russia - in the spring of 2001, he organized an archaeological expedition to Russia to confirm his hypothesis that the ancestors of modern Norwegians came from the shores of the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov.
"A-ha"
Russian youth are better acquainted with the work of this Norwegian group than with Ibsen's plays or Munch's paintings. The founders of the group "came out of the overcoat" "Beatles" and "The Doors". Young ambitious Norwegian musicians, having played a little in their homeland, decided to conquer the capital of rock - they left for London, where at first they huddled in a small attic room, which became their home and recording studio. Young people were very lucky: success came to them immediately after the release of the song "Take on me" in their debut London album, which sold millions of copies. The measure of the group's success can be considered at least that they were offered to record a song for the next episode of the James Bond adventure "The living daylights", and their other song, "Shapes that go together", became the unofficial anthem of the Paralympic Games in Lillehammer. In the early 90s, the golden time of "A-ha", the group broke records of popularity - the team's world tour was attended by over a million people. But already in the middle of the decade, problems began in the group, as often happens: everyone went about their own business. It is noteworthy that the Norwegians gave one of the last concerts before the collapse in St. Petersburg, at the White Nights festival. The old songs of the group are still loved all over the world, and in Norway itself they are often played in bars and nightclubs.
Konstantin Andrianov

Norway is a country famous for its protected nature, cleanliness, changeable weather, good water, seafood, mountain huts, ferries. And it is also famous for the “Royal Hares”, “Stories of Bertha Tuppenhauk”, “Crows of Ut-Röst”, that is, those fairy tales that were written by the famous Norwegian storyteller Peter Christen Asbjørnsen.

Norway is where the wonderful islands, mountains, seas are. The length of its coastline is 25,148 km.

What is Norway?

Norway is a country of untouched natural beauty, famous fjords, mysterious turquoise glacial lakes, deserted arctic beaches, haughty Vikings and fabulous trolls. Country, a third of which is located beyond the Arctic Circle.

Norway… Forests, valleys, waterfalls, glaciers, rocks and cliffs. Lonely lighthouses, reindeer, free-roaming sheep, noisy seagulls. Seas - Norwegian, Barents, North. Hiking trails, mirror lakes, whales, seals and walruses, delicious fish.

Norwegian cities are cozy and interesting in their own way. But they lose to Norwegian nature: untouched, clean, fabulous.

Norway is one of those countries that we classify as countries with a high standard of living. Industry and agriculture in Norway is at a good stage of development. This country is one of the leaders in oil and gas production in Northern Europe. Hydropower is a huge help for the country. Thanks to its development, Norway has the opportunity to export a significant part of the oil.

Industries that are most developed in Norway are gas and oil refining, chemical, fish processing, forestry, shipping, paper and pulp production. In agriculture, the leading direction is animal husbandry.

Famous people of Norway are composer Edvard Grieg, playwright, publicist Heinrich Ibsen, mathematicians Niels Henrik Abel, Marius Sofus Lie, Bernt Holmbo, sailors Amundsen, Nansen, Heerdahl, storyteller Peter Christen Asbjornsen.

The sights of Norway, and there are many of them - the most popular fjord Gairangerfjord, Jotunheimen National Park, the Oslo Ski Museum, the monument to the "skier king" Olaf V. What can you see in Norway? The northernmost point of Europe is the North Cape, the largest Jostedalsbreen glacier. From the observation platform of the town of Gairanger, you can look into the very heart of Norway - endless valleys cut by mountain bays.

What else is Norway famous for?

- respect for nature
- thick fogs, piercing winds, severe rains,
- outlandish Lofoten Islands,
- snow, skiing, biathlon,
- the Atlantic Ocean,
- great fishing
- giant cliffs
- endless waterfalls
- wonderful color of the sky.

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The country of fabulous trolls and fantastic fjords will not leave indifferent even the most experienced tourist. Here, penguins can command people, snow is collected and stored in special hangars so that it does not melt longer, and film shows on high rocks and concerts in caves are quite common.

We are in website made an unforgettable trip to Norway and collected for you the most amazing facts about this mysterious northern country.

1. Penguin at the head of the royal guard

Perhaps this can only happen in Norway. The animal here easily overshadows the popularity of politicians and monarchs. Sir Niels Olaf is the most famous penguin in the world and is the honorary commander and mascot of the Norwegian Royal Guard. He was knighted in 2008 and promoted to brigadier general in 2016.

2. Equal rights

3. Reward from the state

The state appreciates any help from its citizens here. For example, you, on your own initiative, helped put out a fire in the forest along with your neighbors. This act will not go unnoticed by the local authorities, and they will gratefully pay you compensation for the time spent. It can be several thousand Norwegian kroner (several hundred dollars).

Even if you live in a small village and suddenly bad weather left you without electricity for several hours, the utilities will not only quickly fix the damage, but also pay you compensation for the inconvenience caused.

4. Dream schools

5. Pay for purchases in bottles

In many Norwegian stores you can see machines for receiving plastic, glass bottles and aluminum cans. In exchange for the container, they will give you a check with the amount for the returned bottles, which you can use instead of money to pay at the store's checkout.

In Norway, there is so much snow in winter that small wooden houses can easily disappear under its thickness. However, the Norwegians collect all this snow and store it in huge hangars all summer, in order to use it in October when creating ski slopes, when the weather is still warm, and everyone really wants to ski.

7. Sunbathe the Norwegian way

Since the ski season starts in October and lasts almost until May, you can sometimes see hot Norwegians combining their favorite sport with sunbathing in warm weather.

8. Subdue the sun

The sun in northern Norway, especially in winter, is a rare pleasure, and in some settlements, due to the specifics of the landscape, it may not appear at all. So, in the period from September to March, the town of Ryukan is in the shade of the surrounding mountains, completely covering it from the sun. To illuminate the city, in 2013, 3 giant mirrors worth NOK 5 million were installed on the mountain range, which reflect sunlight onto the central square.

9. Clean energy

If you are in Norway, then pay attention to the bus stops. They can be very comfortable. But tourists are more struck not by the decoration, but by the fact that no one takes home all this decor. In addition, no one will steal your phone if you accidentally leave it on a bench in front of a store in a small Norwegian town, as the author of the article saw firsthand. In small towns, it is not customary to lock cars, and the keys to the guest house can be safely dropped into the mailbox and not worry that someone else will take them.

11. Everything is built on trust

Norwegians are so sure of each other's decency that in small villages you can see the following picture: next to the farm there may be a "self-service" table with potatoes packaged in bags and a sign with a price. And next to it there will be a box for paying for purchases - and no seller or hidden cameras. It would never occur to any of the locals that food or money could be stolen.

12. Norwegians love to party

To see the world's largest bonfire, you can visit the Norwegian city of Ålesund, where a 40-meter tower is built from wooden pallets for several days, which is then burned. In this original way, the Norwegians celebrate the middle of summer (June 24).