We seek a lot of external adventure by traveling to the most enchanting places around the world and going to every nook and corner, to the highest peaks and the deepest trenches but we are comfortable with deserting our biggest gift in the exact same spot. Einstein didn't have to launch a rocket to space to find out how the Earth worked, he simply took himself there amidst daydreaming.
And it's sad that in a world where innovators are held highly, visionary and imaginative kids gazing outside the classroom are misunderstood and discouraged at this tender age where a cryptic fear of imagining and executing non-existent ideas takes over them. A potential theory that can change the world is forever lost. These authorities who are at times ourselves fail to see that the crazy idea which comes to you and to me whilst day dreaming and that which make us go "how cool!" are the very ideas upon which fortune 500 companies are built.
And it's sad that in a world where innovators are held highly, visionary and imaginative kids gazing outside the classroom are misunderstood and discouraged at this tender age where a cryptic fear of imagining and executing non-existent ideas takes over them. A potential theory that can change the world is forever lost. These authorities who are at times ourselves fail to see that the crazy idea which comes to you and to me whilst day dreaming and that which make us go "how cool!" are the very ideas upon which fortune 500 companies are built.
Considering that this is the opening post of a blog concerned with change, what better thing is there to write about than the pioneer of the 20th century revolution, Albert Einstein. I happened to watch the documentary (link below) which made me think all over again why the utopia of creativity cannot be borne in the enclosed environment of a school lab or as a university credit project. Therefore, I am here to defend the imaginative forces at work which is always stigmatized as day dreaming.
Have you experienced that very original thought which comes to you in a fraction of a second of deep silence amidst all the thinking of the "intellectual mind". Well, I have, still do and surely you have had it too. It is an action which is often described as "tapping in to the subconscious". This film shows it's tremendous power by documenting Einstein's life and how the Theory of Relativity which answered the biggest 'How, What and Why' of the universe and pretty much is the beginning of all the technological innovations at our service today was indeed a result of Einstein's genius level of IQ, prodigious mathematical skill, hard work, perseverance, impeccable academia, evolved human qualities, etc. etc.. But at the heart of it all was him fantasizing about travelling at the speed of light and questioning the nature of space, which generated his curiosity and consequential work on the ideas in the first place. Four ground breaking theories after that and the rest is history. And whether it was the subtle thought of the falling elevator which questioned Newton's established Theory of Gravity and the eureka moment when the thought of Pluto's unusual path around the Sun came to him as a universal clue, led humanity to see the conventional world in the correct way.
His imaginative subconscious powers manifested in the form of day dreaming and creatively saw connections in things which explained mysteries and opened doors to new understanding that would not be arrived upon had he went from A to B. As the man himself puts it "Knowledge will take you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere". And so I conclude "All imagination starts from day dreaming". What do you think?
His imaginative subconscious powers manifested in the form of day dreaming and creatively saw connections in things which explained mysteries and opened doors to new understanding that would not be arrived upon had he went from A to B. As the man himself puts it "Knowledge will take you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere". And so I conclude "All imagination starts from day dreaming". What do you think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlH2B_E1wE0
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