At the beginning of the article, the author gave us a great ideological cleaning with concrete examples-creation is not as mysterious as myth, and Newton did not create Newton's laws instantly because an apple was hit. Creation is just an idea: an idea called "I can do better", and what human beings create is only creation itself.
Creation is only a result, a result from the constant accumulation of knowledge and experience. Creation is not magical, and those great men are not completely different, just at the critical point of qualitative change. They are the summary of the wisdom of several generations of predecessors. Creation is the product of single thinking, but it is also the crystallization of collective wisdom. Without the support of empirical theory explored by predecessors, there can be no further innovation and development. However, we are often blinded by the myth of personality cult, thinking that it is only God's special care for the monomer, while ignoring the efforts and resilience condensed in the creative process under that dazzling aura. Creation is an instinctive thinking that people are born with, because we need to overcome the unknowns and difficulties encountered in life. Faced with desires and obstacles, we need to overcome obstacles in order to get what we want. And this process of overcoming is the process of thinking and practice, and the final result is to create this product. Creation is both a verb and a noun.
After reading this, we will have doubts. If everyone can create, why am I not an inventor and why can't I create anything? The author is simply fooling the readers! At this point, the author gave us a real answer-we lost to the influence of myth, and we lost to inner laziness.
Work is the soul of innovation, but work is getting up early and greedy for the dark, work is abandoning pleasure, work is boring repetition, and work is a task that cannot be abandoned after repeated failed attempts. It is precisely because the mystery of creation has been uncovered that all that remains is monotony and depression. Therefore, we instinctively reject it and refuse to give us a reason to let go of our hearts. The first reason was born: it is not easy, it is the most difficult, boring and lasting job; At this time, I believe that a large number of people will question it immediately. I work from dawn to dusk every day! I'm not afraid of boredom, but I still haven't created it. Because I don't have time!
Yes, I just don't have time. We always complain about heavy work and housework. We don't have enough time to respond to the call of instinct. But is this really the case? Time is the fairest existence in the world. It distributes the same time to everything in the world. Then why can a great man be a great man, and I can only be one of the sentient beings? We give ourselves more reasons to resist: we have no free time. Mr. Lu Xun once said that time is like water in a sponge, and there will always be a squeeze. And we don't lack cases in which we have accomplished things that we think are difficult to accomplish in our spare time. So what is the reason to stop us?
The answer given by the author is: Dream is a blow-I can't do it!
I think this kind of self-denial may be the reason why we dare not try, dare not surpass and dare not question. A large number of experimental data show that individual innovation has nothing to do with IQ and age. Even, children's test scores are much better than those of adults and high flyers, an extremely tall business school. So what makes our creativity disappear?
There are many reasons: standardized exam-oriented education, the limitation of existing cognitive system, the imprisonment of expert titles, and people's curiosity and rejection of uniqueness. . . All this has created an illusion that we can't do it. The birth of the industrial revolution, the emergence of the Internet, the success of Alibaba, the popularity of Apple and so on. It is proved that those who can hold their own opinions rationally and theoretically can welcome the embrace of innovation in the face of the negation of most people.
There may be many people who think that the creation of this book is a "brainwashing action" for readers by the guy who invented the "Internet of Things". But isn't this the most essential difference between formal winners and ordinary people? They are not fictional characters. Like us, most of them were born in ordinary families and received similar education. Isn't the only difference their persistence and courage?
Creation not only tells us that innovation requires courage, but also teaches us how to achieve creation with vivid examples. Creation is a long process of constantly exploring and advancing in failure, and it is a process of constantly asking questions, solving problems, eliciting new problems and thinking about new solutions. Just like the evolutionary history of mankind, it goes forward in a roundabout way, and sometimes even goes backwards briefly. But only a few people can persist, so there is a result, and only a few people enjoy the aura of myth.
The birth of every new thing needs the courage to question the existing knowledge, the erosion and blow of the old system, and the long struggle. Only those who can persist to the end can open up a new world. Their starting point is the confidence and dissatisfaction of "I can do better".
"Creation" recognizes the inner potential of each of us, gives us the courage to re-recognize ourselves, gives us the courage to change our inherent knowledge, and gives us the courage to give up exaggerated and nonexistent difficult assumptions. Try bravely and then do it. Genius and madness are just a thin line; Perseverance in vain is also a step. The result determines your success or failure, but try to decide whether you can succeed or fail. From then on, throw away the timid heart that hinders our progress and be brave enough to be a person who "I work hard, I try my best, and I am just dissatisfied with the status quo".