They come in the night, or unexpectedly in a walk across the park, with friends playing games or in the quiet of meditation. Such are the provenances of creative breakthroughs that have changed the course of human history; the intuitive insights of a single man or woman that leads to major social change. Nikola Tesla’s invention of the electric motor, at the end of the 19th century, came in a vision as he walked across a city park in New York.Mozart, Brahams, Beethoven, and Copeland had music come to them in an instant. Einstein “saw” Relativity as he idled away time in a canoe after an illness. He later wrote: “I believe in intuition and inspiration…. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”[iii]
Creativity is an individual event, but it only becomes meaningful with social acceptance, and society and our survival […]
Wonderful article, thank you so much! May I have permission to quote or share from the article? I think of the words of Ursula Leguin when she accepted the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (that has gone viral among artists and writers):
“The future will need writers of the imagination who, for the last fifty years, watched the beautiful rewards go to the so-called realists. I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now. Who can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom—poets, visionaries; the realists of a larger reality.”
I believe the breakthroughs will come thru those who understand how much the earth has provided. How can we turn away from Pachamama..anymore that we could turn our backs on a loving mother, a child if they came to us and asked for help..
I sure wish your article was in a larger print format. I am far-sighted and cannot see the small lettering on the full article, even when looking with a magnifying glass, which is very difficult. I am very sorry I cannot see well enough to see the print because I was very interested in it. I did try hard, but hurt my eyes after a couple of phrases.
All you have to do is look at the menu strip at the top of you screen and go under view and Zoom until you get to a size you can read.
It would be interesting to return to the data regarding the CEO’s, and examine the relationship between the ability to predict numbers, and the wellness effects on the environment and culture of the corporation that CEO leads. I suspect that the relationship is Zero. This ability is accessible for both good and ill.