I have always loved to fly. The part I like is looking out the plane’s window and seeing a marvelous earth kaleidoscope. As the plan changes altitude, and as it turns, new perspectives appear. Whatever the landscape, there is a beauty and wholeness about it all. It is as if everything you have ever known is lurking out there, and if you shout your story everyone in the whole world will hear and benefit. If I were interested in bacteria rather than geology, I might achieve the same mind set looking through a microscope at a culture, or if I were interested in semiconductor circuit elements I might study a photograph taken through a scanning electron microscope of a semiconductor chip. In the old days of mechanical inventions, one immersed oneself in mechanical drawings and models.
I am projecting my mind into an external space somewhere outside of my head and my surroundings. This space could be invention space if I am creating new products. It could be stage in artistic space if I am composing an opera. It could be inside a black hole if I am a physicist working on a new theory. In each case I am striving to be imaginative and creative by wholly submersing my mind’s eye in the space immediately surrounding what’s being analyzed and for endless periods periods of time. I analyze all combinations of the data and search for clues to the breakthrough I am hoping for while unsociably avoiding distractions
