Effective Innovation REVISED EDITION by John Adair

Author:John Adair [Adair, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781509812103
Amazon: 1509812105
Published: 2021-10-24T06:50:16+00:00

I had entered the green and had passed the old washing house. I was thinking of the engine at the time. I had gone as far as the herd’s house when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a connection were made between the cylinder and an exhausting vessel it would rush into it and might then be condensed without cooling the cylinder . . . I had not walked further than the Golf house when the whole thing was arranged in my mind.

‘Like a long-legged fly upon the stream, her mind moves upon silence.’ These evocative words by Robert Frost underline the need for silence and solitude in creative thinking, such as you find on a country walk. It helps, too, if you have a feeling of expectancy or confidence. We have all been given minds capable of creative thinking and there is no going back on that. So we are more than halfway there. We just have to believe that there are words and music in the air, so to speak, if we tune our instruments to the right wavelengths. They will come in their own time and place. Our task is to be ready for them. For inspiration, like chance, favours the prepared mind. By contrast, negative feelings of fear, anxiety or worry – even anxiety that inspiration will never come or never return – are antithetical to this basic attitude of trust. They drive away what they long for. As expressed by the poet Shelley: ‘If winter comes, can spring be far behind?’

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