Facilitating Creative Breakthroughs
Albert Einstein said that imagination is the “highest form of research.”
The Australian animal pathologist William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1908-2006), said that facts and ideas are “dead in themselves. It is the imagination that gives them life.”
We humans are blessed with the ability to imagine a world beyond the ordinary. Let’s make good use of this gift.
Metaphor is at the core of nearly all scientific breakthroughs and acts of genius.
Celebrated scientists like Niels Bohr, Richard Feynman, and Albert Einstein relied on metaphor to help them make new discoveries.
Clearly, fundamental change depends upon our ability to engage with metaphor.
In other words, metaphor is an act of genius.
Some highlights from my article in Medium, Five Reasons why Creativity and Business have a Problematic Relationship…
“Creativity lives in the unknown…in a fairy-tale place that’s beyond how we are currently “looking.” True creativity is confronting, confusing, unacceptable, and childlike. And nearly impossible to measure, contain or define.”
“Both Carl Jung and Albert Einstein said in different ways that problems can’t be solved at their own level. To come up with truly innovative solutions, to sincerely dwell in the creative, we have to shift our focus. We have to look in a different way.”
Here are 5 reasons why creativity and business can be incompatible:
(1) Creativity is about expansiveness, unlimited possibilities, and being comfortable with the unknown.
(2) True creativity is challenging, confronting, and rarely ‘acceptable.’
(3) Creativity is confusing and not readily explainable.
(4) Creativity is not separate from who are as humans — it’s not a “tool.”
(5) Highly creative people are comfortable with childlike play.
Read the full article here:
Albert Einstein said that imagination is the “highest form of research.”
We humans are blessed with the ability to imagine a world beyond the ordinary. Let’s make good use of this gift.
Australian animal pathologist William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1908-2006),
said: “Facts and ideas are dead in themselves. It is the imagination that gives them life.”
Einstein famously said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
That’s a great quote, so why don’t we have schools of the imagination rather than schools where we learn within the boundaries of what is already known?