Inspiration from Left Field

I came across this (not sure where) and I think it really applies to our Country, our President, and each of us as individuals......

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Creativity loves a problem, but it hates a lousy audience.

If everyone around you is sure the economy is tanking, that the end is near, that time is up and the company is headed for the tubes, it's almost impossible to find a creative solution.

Creativity changes the game, whatever game is being played. "We're going to run out of cash by the end of the year," is accurate unless you count creativity into the equation. Then the accurate statement is, "Under the current rules and assumptions, we're going to run out of cash..." Big difference.

Creativity demands exposure to market needs, and insulation from market fears. Give it some time to work, some support, some breathing room. That's when creativity has a chance to change the game.

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I think a new kind of creativity will be required in areas like alternative fuels, healthcare reform, education reform, as well as numerous others. Instead of thinking outside the box, I think it is time to get rid of the box altogether. Radical? Maybe. Although there was a time when the world thought that it was radical, even impossible to think that the wall would (could) ever come down between East and West Germany.

Never underestimate the impossible.