Bucky
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Interesting short video on the topic of gut feelings and intuition:
Seems like an innumerable amount of ideas for inventions and discoveries came through intuitions. Nicola Tesla comes to mind as the quintessential example of this sort of process. Almost psychic in nature, given how those visions came to him.
Tesla's conception of his AC (alternating current) motor came to him during one of those visions which he reported in his diary and autobiography, "My Inventions":
Cool eh?
Maybe we owe one of the most revolutionary inventions in modern times to a gifted psychic who was also an extremely skilled engineer.
I want more of them! ;)
Seems like an innumerable amount of ideas for inventions and discoveries came through intuitions. Nicola Tesla comes to mind as the quintessential example of this sort of process. Almost psychic in nature, given how those visions came to him.
Tesla's conception of his AC (alternating current) motor came to him during one of those visions which he reported in his diary and autobiography, "My Inventions":
"One afternoon ... I was enjoying a walk with my friend in the city park and reciting poetry. At that age I knew entire books by heart, word for word. One of these was Goethes Faust. The sun was just setting and reminded me of a glorious passage: The glow retreats, done is the day of toil; It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring; Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soil Upon its tract to follow, follow soaring!
"As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagram shown six years later in my address before the American institute of Electrical Engineers.
"The images were wonderfully sharp and clear and had the solidity of metal. 'See my motor here; watch me reverse it.'"
"As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagram shown six years later in my address before the American institute of Electrical Engineers.
"The images were wonderfully sharp and clear and had the solidity of metal. 'See my motor here; watch me reverse it.'"
Cool eh?
Maybe we owe one of the most revolutionary inventions in modern times to a gifted psychic who was also an extremely skilled engineer.
I want more of them! ;)