It was time for a video about the life of the poet Jaime Sabines, and I discovered an extraordinary truth in a banal anecdote about one of his children. Sabines wrote late, and his bride, so that the little children, little girl or boy, would not disturb him, sent them into the garden on the pretext that the father was going to work. They did not understand what the work consisted of, and one day they decided to have it done: they came with difficulty from the garden to the door of the window of the dwelling where the Sabines worked, and watched it for a long time. The revealer of this story was in the conversation of these children: in one minute of the poet’s atonement, the little girl asked in her voice: “What does daddy do?”
When I hear this simple and objective answer, I reveal forgetfulness (remember that the rediscovery of forgetfulness is the most surprising thing that can happen to us: it allows us to wonder before we realize it): I also look at the wall when I start working, because I do exactly what the Sabins did: I look at the wall, sometimes even during the hours.
I read this article while taking physicist Richard Feynman’s class — a fascinating series I came across on the web — and learned the same creative method as the Sabines. In one of his lectures, Feynman explains how he discovered one of his most revolutionary contributions to mechanical mechanics: the name Suma de Historias: “Late, I say, I was in a cafe discussing flechitas in a servilleta and that was when you had an epiphany.” (Addition of history is an extraordinary method that allows you to read through an electron, connect point A to point B, go through all possible paths, from the simplest, like a straight line, to the most far-fetched, like a flight to the moon and rotation). I don’t care what Suma consists of or Integral Trajectories or Feynman diagrams, which are different names that usually give this important contribution to the narrative, down to the simple: the flechitas race in servility, well, carefully observed, it’s the same as the Sabini had or I have to look at the wall. This supposition, seemingly of little importance, interests me because, on the verge of Sabine’s talent demonstrated in poetry or Feynman’s speech in physics, it illuminates a crucial aspect of creation: that is, when one is left with nothing and something else seems ready.
But let me insist on another case: in the word “heureka” there is an archaic anecdote, which in Greek means: “I met with it.” ¡Eureka!, was the euphoric cry of Arquímedes naked and in the middle of some street in Syracuse. Gritó because she found a solution to the problem that left her alone. She wanted to know if the crown the craftsman made for her was pure gold, or if he was afraid of it and gave her the crown he had at some risk. Arquímedes had been working on the problem for a long time, so of course the king had to ask him for a condition not to harm the crown, so that Arquímedes could not fund it to ensure that it would be there; but of course i found a solution. I imagine myself in Arquímedes with his middle body submerged in hot water and facing the surface of the bath water, God with the answer. Now it may seem simple: what the physicist stumbled upon was the relationship of the volume and density of his body to the water level in the bathtub. As she submerged, the water receded. Then I gave the king the same amount of gold that the craftsman had given her, he immersed it in water and compared the rise of the water with what happened when the crown was immersed, that is, if the crown was not made of pure gold. The craftsman ended by admitting that he had lost some gold and replaced it with gold.
As can be said, Arquímedes, like Sabines and Feynman, had his gaze fixed on something: a wall, a servile, or the water level of a bath, in all these cases it had the effect of appearing as an idea, a form of answer to a problem: Sabines was certainly looking for a verse similar to the central poem above, Feynman and the answer to a double problem. Archaeologists whose true material was the crown that revealed it over the course of months.
Creation is the moment in which a thought that did not exist and is already ready appears; It’s a relationship that no one ever noticed. Such a foreign phenomenon that griegos attributed to the muses, because it really seems supernatural, because something that was not appears: an idea, a solution. When you look at various discoveries or inventions, creations in a word, this is what happens: an idea appears. In another identical case, Einstein seemed to be dissatisfied with Newton’s theory of gravitation and envisioned himself as a scavenger of winds falling from nitrogen, thus discovering that gravity is not the force that pulls us to earth, not even the curvature of space-time.
How does an idea come about? I admit that I don’t know myself and I don’t think anyone really recognizes me. However, let us recognize that in all cases there is a confluence of different factors: those who create are skilled in the activity or discipline in which they offer their contributions; lego doesn’t have the same ideas that allow it to overflow with the repertoire of what’s out there. The persistence component also seems necessary, the idea is not an easy appearance until the result of a test that makes someone persist for a considerable period of time by giving them turns into a problem; and one more ingredient: he has a false imagination, that ability to be able to relate to the most disparate things and not only to those that have an obvious relationship, and, as can be seen, also requires the value of trusting in one and the same. Because all great creation is born as a heart, as a hypothesis that can be concluded in the middle of a world full of answers that represent a huge authority and only restore the weight of Newton that Einstein confronted with his new theory of general relativity. If you remember Galileo, who opposed the Aristotelian tradition which said that a body moves at different speeds, the acceleration can depend on its mass and, as you know, everything at the limit of its mass depends on the same speed.
Ideas are the most important thing. Ideas are what gave us the hegemonic place that puts us on top of all species. Nothing is more important than ideas unless they have culture or civilization. We died out as a species if it weren’t for ideas. Thoughts are what we left behind from the fire of the gods that Prometheus begged us for. I will explain that I do not know how they are given, but they created these properties. I insist: ideas that do not contain those that produce newbies make a flawed versatility: one must rely on knowledge, but not because he finds it on the web, until he takes care of it, it is necessary to actually acquire it, to keep it with him, and not only the knowledge of the specialized field in which the idea is, it can be the imagination that is also indispensable to the emergence of these unsuspected, related contents; therefore, if it is necessary to lay down external curiosity, because imagination is the most powerful catalyst of creation. And to do it wrong, to do it, to focus, to put twists and turns on the problem, to make connections, to combine, to deduce, to connect assumptions, to digress, you can find a feeling where we did not see it or where we did not see it. All this desire, passion, and confidence in one and the same, not the confidence of a third man, until one knows that the first time is better, and above all the confidence of what may befall him on another occasion. Finally, if you require bravery, the courage to confront the whole world with an idea is accurate.
Look at the importance of the ideas I tried to evoke here, and society actually had something to stimulate the appearance of ideas in all, even ideas, even the most apparently useless ones, which have existed for thousands of years, such as those that correspond to the theory of numbers: for example, the first numbers, invented by the Pythagoreans, which seemed so rare that we literally cannot live now based on these ideas based on speculation: without the encryption of the theory numbers. Therefore, in conclusion, I will ask the question: what do we all do: society, the state and each of us, to support the creation and also the qualities that accompanied those who brought ideas into the world?
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