2014.08.20

能力比知識更重要

  愛因斯坦說：「想像力比知識更重要」，因為知識是有限的，而想像力擁抱整個世界 。我說：「能力比知識更重要」，因為知識是靜態的，而能力掌握整個世界。大家都知道所謂的靈感來自99%的汗水，真知灼見不是憑空產生的，而是經過長時間準備受千錘百鍊而得來的。所以說沒有靈丹妙藥，而且正是那種對靈丹妙藥的渴求，導致今天意志消沉如此容易發生，因為大家都很悶，很失望。沒有靈丹妙藥，任何事都需要時間。

  此刻談論不同的創造，第一種方式是漸進式的，好像滴水穿石，一點一滴，慢慢的，是很花時間的。第二種方式是突發式的，好像大槌開山劈石，鑿出一條路，一個隧道。對於這兩種創新，或是所有形式的創新，必須要注意的是，重點是要將創新持續下去。不是突然一變之後又恢復原狀，因此要注意的是，創新不是藥到病除的靈丹妙藥。即便當我們舉起大槌，就是這舉起的動作，也必須在之前做很多準備功夫。舉例來說漸進式的創新，慢慢地成為能夠尋找美好的人，逐漸看到更多積極的事物，逐漸建構新的神經通路。

Ability is more important than Knowledge

   Einstein said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”, for knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the whole world. I said “ability is more important than knowledge”, for knowledge is static, whereas ability handles the whole world. You know the 99% of perspiration that leads to that inspiration, the great insight that doesn’t come in a vacuum, it comes after a lot of hard work after a lot of preparation. So no quick-fix. And the believe in quick-fix, the expectation of the quick-fix that is one of the reasons why levels of the depression are so high today, because people are frustrated. They are disappointed. No quick-fix. It takes time.

   This time we are talking about the different kinds of creative. The first approach- the gradual approach, like water wearing down stone, chipping away gradually slowly taking our time. The second approach – the acute creative, the sledge hammer breaking stone creating a new pathway, a new channel. The important thing to keep in mind with both forms of creative, with all form of creative, lasting creative that is, which is what we are about. Not just the spike and the return to base level. The thing to keeping mind about creative is that neither is quick-fix. Even when we pick up the sledge hammer, even when we pick it up, we need to do a lot of work before the preparation, so for example, gradual creative, slowly becoming more and more of a benefit finder, gradually looking more at the positive, creating a new neural pathway neuron by neuron.