The impossible
The announcement of the first cancer vaccine for cervical cancer is good news. It demonstrates how medical research continues to do what not so long ago was considered impossible.
When I interviewed some of the world’s top inventors ten years ago for my first book on creativity, every inventor reported that doing the impossible was their usual goal. A practice that needs to spread.
October 8th, 2005 17:29
Wow, that’s a fascinating statement of the inventors’ vision, Jack. I’ve been reading The Fifth Discipline, and I think I finally understand Senge’s statement of ‘creative tension’ - that imagery of the rubber band stretching between current reality and future vision. To lessen the tension, one has to either move current reality toward the vision or the vision toward the current reality. Refusing to give up on the impossible vision is more likely to move our current reality forward with more intensity . . . the moral being: Dream Big!
October 8th, 2005 21:36
Thanks Tina. It is about having the political will to dream big. The problem is that big dreams can’t be “managed.” That’s why institutions and organizations can resist them.