Trust that moment

man handing a pen to write

Think of innovation in terms of discovery. A moment of creation happening as a result of previous research, clarifying, thinking, sleeping, incubating, and conversing with others.


It is similar to the act of writing where the creation must take place between the pen and the paper (or the fingers and the keyboard, the voice and the recorder, etc.). It does not happen before in thought or afterwards in a recasting.
“You have to know what you want to get; but when you know that, let it take you.” (Gertrude Stein, in a conversation with John Hyde Preston)


It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.