TABLE OF CONTENTS Creative people look for opportunities to extend their imagination into areas where others have made assumptions or areas others have not considered or ventured into. Dr. Albert Einstein has been termed a conceptual inventor or genius. He said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." He found that by exercising his imagination, he could extend his imagination into unknown areas. I believe that you too can venture into new creative areas if you apply the principles of creativity presented in this book.
The creating of ideas or utilizing one's imagination is no longer the secret of just a few educated and successful men and women. It is available to you, and history proves it. A boy who worked in a meat market and sold candy, soda water, and magazines on a train in his spare time increased his ability to think up new ideas that brought success and fame. That boy was Thomas Edison. Great ideas have generally come from people who were working in unrelated fields of endeavor. Samuel F. Morse was a portrait painter; he invented the telegraph. The steamboat was invented by an artist, Robert Fulton. Eli Whitney, a schoolteacher, invented the cotton gin and was the first person to build parts that were interchangeable, which made clock making a thriving industry.
Their success was based on personal decisions to think more deeply about things they observed from day to day. We have a lot more things to observe than they did. How many times...
