Setting the "working mood"
pp.118-119
Just as baseball players swing two bats before stepping to the plate, we need to flex our imaginations when approaching a creative task.
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Open-mindedness is so essential to creativity that we sometimes have to ward off influences which might close our minds while in quest of ideas. It would have been easy for Pasteur to have taken for granted the cause of silkworm disease when he went to the south of France to save it from ruin. The local silk-worm-growers tried to tell him just what the disease was and what caused it. Had he heeded their theories, he might never have found the answer that meant so much to France.
Just as baseball players swing two bats before stepping to the plate, we need to flex our imaginations when approaching a creative task.
....
Open-mindedness is so essential to creativity that we sometimes have to ward off influences which might close our minds while in quest of ideas. It would have been easy for Pasteur to have taken for granted the cause of silkworm disease when he went to the south of France to save it from ruin. The local silk-worm-growers tried to tell him just what the disease was and what caused it. Had he heeded their theories, he might never have found the answer that meant so much to France.
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