Chapter 54 Four great tips for capturing inspiration

When it comes to innovative thinking, one might talk about inspiration.The great physicist Einstein said when talking about the situation when he formed his views on the special theory of relativity: "I lie on my bed, and the riddle that torments me seems to have no hope of answering, no ray of light, but out of the darkness there is Light, the answer came out! So I immediately went to work, worked hard for 5 weeks, and wrote the paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies". These weeks, I seem to be in a state of madness." When someone asked him Regarding how to form the general theory of relativity, he said: "One day, I was sitting in the chair of the Berne Patent Office and suddenly thought: If a person falls freely, will he feel his own weight? I was surprised. This simple His thought experiment left a deep impression on me. It was the inspiration for my theory of gravity.”

You may also have the same experience: facing the same problem, it took a lot of effort, and you didn't come up with a good solution after searching, but you came up with a brilliant idea the moment you raised your chopsticks while eating.This is inspiration at work.No wonder, Einstein once solemnly declared to the world: "I believe in inspiration." So, what is inspiration?In essence, inspiration is still a kind of thinking activity of human beings, but because its laws cannot be deciphered by people, it is extremely flexible. Inspiration often appears in a flash, sometimes even in sleep, and its arrival is completely unexpected.Inspiration is not the result of conventional thinking processes, it exists in the subconscious mind, it is not controlled by humans, and it is not consciously realized by humans.Experience has proved that inspiration is often generated by some kind of stimulation after hard work or when you are relaxing.There are also categories of inspiration: one kind flashes in an instant, disappears all at once, and never comes back again. This kind of inspiration is the most elusive and difficult to understand with the existing knowledge of mankind; Work came suddenly after this. Although this kind of inspiration cannot be fully explained, at least it can be perceived that it is closely related to the previous hard work.

Inspiration is a kind of thinking that exists universally, and everyone can consciously use it.Some people don't understand what inspiration is, and what are the characteristics and rules of inspiration. Even if inspiration has appeared in their minds, they often don't feel it deeply and cannot grasp it.Some people say getting inspired is easy and it works a lot.Others feel that it is insignificant and insignificant.There are also some people who have longed for inspiration, but feel that it is hazy, illusory, and elusive.There are still a few people who don't believe in the existence of inspiration at all, and the theory of inspiration is crooked.

In fact, as long as you have some understanding of the mechanism, characteristics, and certain laws of the phenomenon of inspiration, and you have a certain amount of spiritual preparation and sensitivity to capture and use inspiration, then everyone may be pleasantly surprised to find that you have or are Taste the nectar of inspiration. Don't let go of all kinds of unexpected phenomena that happen by chance. You should think about it carefully and pay different degrees of attention according to different situations, so as not to miss the opportunity to get some results or important clues.Because the essence of things often can only be fully revealed under certain conditions.It is these unexpected things that have the necessary specific conditions to show a certain mystery of things.Capturing phenomena that flash through unexpected events can inspire inspiration.Come up with innovations along the way.

When a person takes a bath, the body is stretched and the mood is relaxed, which often makes people feel refreshed and free from all fetters and burdens, and sometimes even enters a semi-self-hypnotic state that seems to be sleeping but not sleeping.At this time, the barrier between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind may no longer be a "tight barrier", but has been "loosened". Be more active and actively cooperate with obvious thinking to think about problems.At this time, the questions that linger in my mind day and night may suddenly flash some kind of answer or clue in my mind.When we go to bed, the body and mind are relaxed, the subconscious mind is also very active, and inspiration may also appear at this time.The West has the so-called "three B thinking method": "bed (bed), bath (bath), bus (bus)" (referring to these three occasions are suitable for thinking), which is the same as what we said that bed rest and bathing are conducive to inspiration. Induced, apparently consistent.

Many people feel that listening to music and thinking in the atmosphere of music is conducive to the generation of inspiration. Answering a reporter in 1928, Einstein said: "Music does not interfere with our research work, and sometimes both grow from the same source of desire; their lightness complements each other." He also said: "The great scientists and the great composers are both alike in this - they are both great poets." Darwin said in "Autobiography": "Music often forces me to think nervously about the problems I am studying." The famous Japanese inventor Yoshiro Nakamatsu said in his lecture "Ten Steps of Invention" that he should be good at capturing inspiration. He said that he specially set up two rooms in his apartment, a "quiet room" with a All kinds of paintings are hung; a "moving room" has some sound installations.Every day he would stay in these two rooms for two or three hours, often listening to music while thinking about his own invention.He even once said: "Whenever I hear Beethoven's music, I will incomprehensibly have excellent flashes of thought. It can also be said that several of my inventions are given by Beethoven."

People's physical strength can only be exercised in activities with a relatively large load, so as to increase day by day.If athletes are not trained under high standards and high requirements, it will be difficult to achieve excellent results.In the same way, it is impossible for a person's brain to develop normally when he is "full of food all day long and has nothing to do with his mind".The mind not only becomes more flexible the more it is used, but also in a state of fast-paced tension, or in some urgent and dangerous situation, it often doubles its vitality due to its high-intensity use, and enables the potential to be brought into play, thus creating a mental state in general. Miracle impossible under circumstances.

Not everyone can force inspiration and miracles under tense, urgent, and dangerous situations.According to the statistics of some scientists, when a sudden disaster occurs, only about 12% to 20% of people can keep a clear mind and take decisive action; about 75% of people will be at a loss or show mental numbness; 10% to 25% % of people will appear panic, anxiety and serious behavior panic, so that the disaster will cause greater losses. A burst of inspiration depends on certain conditions.First of all, we must be calm and calm in the face of danger, and at the same time we must think calmly.Because after all, inspiration comes from "thinking" through explicit thinking and subconscious thinking, not "urgent".