Will You Succeed by Accident?

Are you waiting for your big break in life? Are you waiting for a chance event to suddenly make everything better? The truth is that most "fortunate accidents" are not really accidents at all. They happen as the direct result of hope, faith and passion.

When you imagine a thing that you desperately want to make happen, you create a three-dimensional reality in your mind. You see it as though it has already become real in the objective, fourth dimensional reality of time.

That's when the whole universe seems to start working for you!

Neurologist Richard Cytowic explains this phenomenon marvellously in his book The Man Who Tasted Shapes............

Creative people are like a dog with a bone. They refuse to let go of an idea. They mull over the problem at their workbench as well as in the most mundane places. They chew on it just as a dog chews on the same old bone for hours. And just as the dog guards the bone safely between its paws when not actively chewing it, creative people nurture an idea even when not actively thinking about it.

The true marks of creativity are:

1) An ability to sense which problems are likely to yield results and so are worth tackling
2) Confidence that you can solve the problems that you single out for solution.
3) A dogged persistence that keeps you going when others would give up.

Creativity does not result from mysterious visions that come in dreams, for from fortuitous circumstances. Creativity and persistence are synonymous. Constantly thinking about the problem, consciously and unconsciously, maximizes the possibility that a chance occurrence is likely to be useful in solving it.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
- Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor