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Background: James Lovelock the main character of the article “ The Man Who Discovered Mother Nature” with weird personality put forward some bold new theories that may forever change the way we look at life on our planet. The following was written after reading it.
Only creativity works
When the word “anachronism” first occurred to my eyes, I wonder how James Lovelock would be that. In the end, it struck me deeply not only for his Gaia Hypothesis but also for his individual personality. He is an independent researcher and inventor, freely pursuing his curiosity across many fields. He was highlighted by his unique way of thinking. Creativity is the core.
While almost all scientists were working in large scales, Jame Lovelock did his research alone in a remote village. However, he did become the center of a scientific debate storm. Is it a paradox that on the one hand we encourage teamwork, on the other hand we can’t neglect individuality. In fact we need teamwork, but we don’t want just any team, we need dream teams comprising diverse talents. It is like a world cup soccer dream team, made up of the best players to play their respective roles. Set an enterprise for example, innovation is imperative for competitiveness especially when they try to compete in the world markets against the fellow ones who can mass-produce products at lower costs. Only when the managing executives can inspire their member’s intelligence and creativity would the corporation get the better of the other players. It is also true with medical fields. We need cultivate more creativity and take more risks there, which is challenging and rewarding. It was Jonas Salk, the founder of the polio vaccine in the’30s who create a new era against poliovirus. Due to it, hopefully, at the early time of the next century human being can fully control poliomyelitis, a disease that will cripple the teenagers. In China the quality of academic thesis is not so good as expected. It has been warned that the status of China’s academic research in the world scope keeps declining in recent years though the amount of thesis is increasing. The main problem is lack of creativity. How to pull out of the misery condition is rivaling all the intellectuals.
Is creativity meant to be a dreamer just as Jame Lovelock seems? They have much in common. They are both attractive and glamorous, on the other hand not easily accepted. But we should allow ourselves to be impractical, illogical or absurd at first. Only when we begin to play our roles would we have a chance to unlock dream wishes. Only then would we transform them into logical or realist mode.
Success in innovation is the result of sustained, consistent and concentrated efforts. It cannot be fulfilled overnight. It must be planned, systematic and continuos, with each temporary gains providing learning for the next innovative project. Each creativity can be a step away from misery and a step towards success. It doesn’t matter whether it is a pure dream or not. What really counts is to gather our courage to stick to it because only creativity works.
Only creativity works
When the word “anachronism” first occurred to my eyes, I wonder how James Lovelock would be that. In the end, it struck me deeply not only for his Gaia Hypothesis but also for his individual personality. He is an independent researcher and inventor, freely pursuing his curiosity across many fields. He was highlighted by his unique way of thinking. Creativity is the core.
While almost all scientists were working in large scales, Jame Lovelock did his research alone in a remote village. However, he did become the center of a scientific debate storm. Is it a paradox that on the one hand we encourage teamwork, on the other hand we can’t neglect individuality. In fact we need teamwork, but we don’t want just any team, we need dream teams comprising diverse talents. It is like a world cup soccer dream team, made up of the best players to play their respective roles. Set an enterprise for example, innovation is imperative for competitiveness especially when they try to compete in the world markets against the fellow ones who can mass-produce products at lower costs. Only when the managing executives can inspire their member’s intelligence and creativity would the corporation get the better of the other players. It is also true with medical fields. We need cultivate more creativity and take more risks there, which is challenging and rewarding. It was Jonas Salk, the founder of the polio vaccine in the’30s who create a new era against poliovirus. Due to it, hopefully, at the early time of the next century human being can fully control poliomyelitis, a disease that will cripple the teenagers. In China the quality of academic thesis is not so good as expected. It has been warned that the status of China’s academic research in the world scope keeps declining in recent years though the amount of thesis is increasing. The main problem is lack of creativity. How to pull out of the misery condition is rivaling all the intellectuals.
Is creativity meant to be a dreamer just as Jame Lovelock seems? They have much in common. They are both attractive and glamorous, on the other hand not easily accepted. But we should allow ourselves to be impractical, illogical or absurd at first. Only when we begin to play our roles would we have a chance to unlock dream wishes. Only then would we transform them into logical or realist mode.
Success in innovation is the result of sustained, consistent and concentrated efforts. It cannot be fulfilled overnight. It must be planned, systematic and continuos, with each temporary gains providing learning for the next innovative project. Each creativity can be a step away from misery and a step towards success. It doesn’t matter whether it is a pure dream or not. What really counts is to gather our courage to stick to it because only creativity works.