Sep
Ideas
As important as modern day technological tools are, it should be realized that throughout all recorded history, nothing was ever accomplished, no goal was ever reached, no need was ever met and no problem was ever solved that didn’t begin with an IDEA!
Ideas are the substance of the imagination. They are the effects of creative thinking. When people ignore or overlook new ideas and concepts, they risk becoming the victims of another’s creative initiative regardless of their technological competence. While any activity should take advantage of the best technological aids available, it behooves us to be alert to the necessity for balance and make specific, conscious efforts to increase our imaginative skills. We should be constantly scanning our mental horizons for new opportunities for growth and advancement and become aware of the events and circumstances that can contribute to our productivity: “to establish results, benefits and profits… through our imaginative skills.” (Webster)
Your mind, which embodies this “thing” called “creativity“, is the source of all ideas. Your consciousness is the best computer ever devised. However mind-boggling the next generation of computers may be, that master computer between your ears is the only “mechanism” that can generate new, original ideas and be responsive to the flow of mental images of the imagination.
These images are a glimpse into the future. It is vision, which is defined by Webster as, “the act or power of perceiving mental images (ideas) in the imagination.” Jonathan Swift noted that “vision id the art of seeing the invisible.” Helen Keller was quoted as having said, “Worse than being blind, is to have no vision.”
Remember, the computer and all its associated technologies are merely the outward manifestation of someone’s creative thinking. Remember, to, that an effect cannot, and never will, initiate any action of its own. It must forever be subservient to its primal cause and source: creative thinking.
It was Victor Hugo who reminded us the “there is nothing more powerful than the right idea whose time has come.” That time is NOW!
Take time to marvel at the computer with all its wonder, with all its contributing technologies and its capacity to make such significant contributions to out way of life. But always reserve a quiet place in your mind where you can retire from the pressures imposed by the “real world” and take time to THINK.
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