To create anything
you must first envision it. I like to say it this way: you must see it to
create it. A common word we use to explain vision is imagination. Nothing comes to fruition without imagination. Stephen
Covey, author of The Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People, states that, “Everything is created twice.” You first
envision and create it within you then you fabricate and create it without.
We all have two pairs of eyes – our outer pair and an
inner pair. Our outer pair is held down by limitations and boundaries. They feed
us with the helpful but limited information to go about our everyday life. With
your inner pair, sight has no boundary. You can see and be wherever you want to
see and be. You can be in a village on the outskirts of Zungeru and yet travel
in your mind to the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong, or the Eiffel tower of Paris.
You can experience the snow peak of Mount Kilimanjaro while living in a valley
near Lokoja!
So, to create you must first see your boundless creation!
In addition, it isn’t simply enough to see it. You
must be able to see it clearly. You must
be able to define it in your mind. A blur is not enough. The blueprint in your
mind must be specific and clear cut. Below is an excerpt from the autobiography
of one of the greatest inventors of his generation, Nikola Telsa, which
explains my thought:
“…
I observed to my delight that I could visualise with the greatest facility. I
needed no models, drawings or experiments. I could picture them all as real in
my mind. Thus I have been led unconsciously to evolve what I consider a new
method of materialising inventive concepts and ideas, which is radically
opposite to the purely experimental and is in my opinion ever so much more
expeditious and efficient.
"The
moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds
himself unavoidably engrossed with the details of the apparatus. As he goes on
improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he
loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained, but
always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into
actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my
imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the
device in my mind. It is absolutely
immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop. I
even note if it is out of balance. There is no difference whatever; the results
are the same. In this way I am able to rapidly develop and perfect a conception
without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the
invention every possible improvement I can think of and see no fault anywhere,
I put into concrete form this final product of my brain. Invariably my device
works as I conceived that it should, and the experiment comes out exactly as I
planned it. In twenty years there has not been a single exception. Why should
it be otherwise?”
Nikola Telsa went on to visualize and invent the Alternating
Current, electric bulbs, discovered X-rays, Radio, Remote Control,
Electric Motor, Robotics, Laser, Wireless Communications and
Limitless Free Energy.
