This is the work of a 17 year old Singaporean, Leon Yuchin-Lau. Imagine what he’ll be like at 50 if he avoids being murdered by jealous rivals:-
If a boy must wonder
If a boy must wonder
Let him recall
Not the lightning grace of falcons,
The dizzying aeronautics, Darwin’s finch,
The voyage of the ancients
Who saw further, with their charts and sails
And bubbly telescopic minds
Brought ashore hope
To lift
A charioting god to the moon,
But how
Even a rogue dream of stars
Once birthed the possibility of flight.
The art of creativity which lies at the heart of business today (or should do) lies in making connections, in looking at an object and wondering “what if?” It lies in change. It lies in being like children at play and the stories they create. It lies in questions and “rogue dreams”.
Most of all it lies in our ”bubbly telescopic minds” – the ability to look further and to magnify and to feel that surge of approaching new worlds – of keenly wanting to know the unknown.
I really think the most exciting thing in the whole world is a white sheet of paper, a sharp pencil…and that sense of questioning and of potential to “birth possibilities”.
Get bubbling…..
Monday 18 October 2010
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I think it comes about when A plus B make more than (A plus B). The skill is in spotting when this is likely to be so, and keeping a hand on the tiller so it actually does become so.
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