I’m interested in getting your thoughts about stuff I see and hear, quotes I read, stuff that passes as knowledge – and starting an authorey conversation.
So true. Enthusiasm and motivation are fleeting at times, so understand their importance.
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You may have to be smart, but affect doesn’t effect genius. People half assedly fall into greatness all the time…and great things happen under their noses.
Well, kinda. They were working hard on another drug – one that would help people who were bedridden, I think, and noticed the drugs they gave them for better blood circulation had an additional side effect. So it was seizing the opportunity that resulted from hard work in another vein that created the “lucky” situation, and then they had to be smart enough to see a benefit to somebody else for needing erections from a pill. Probably seems obvious in retrospect, but at the time I’m sure half the researchers were embarrassed about that result and weren’t thinking about where they could sell such a pill.
I think penicillin was kinda similar, seeing a result from a test when they were looking at something else.
Either way, I agree: the people involved had to be smart to be in the circumstance in the first place.
As was shampoo – which was supposed to be a cure for baldness and corn flakes – which was a desperate attempt to salvage an otherwise culinary disaster.
Kills believing in serendipitous outcomes.
Hmm…
That’s all you got?
Ha! Maybe.
Just pondering your supposition.
Great things don’t happen by accident or luck. Therefore if it happens because of luck, it’s not great.
You may have to be smart, but affect doesn’t effect genius. People half assedly fall into greatness all the time…and great things happen under their noses.
Penicillin and Viagra were discovered by luck.
Well, kinda. They were working hard on another drug – one that would help people who were bedridden, I think, and noticed the drugs they gave them for better blood circulation had an additional side effect. So it was seizing the opportunity that resulted from hard work in another vein that created the “lucky” situation, and then they had to be smart enough to see a benefit to somebody else for needing erections from a pill. Probably seems obvious in retrospect, but at the time I’m sure half the researchers were embarrassed about that result and weren’t thinking about where they could sell such a pill.
I think penicillin was kinda similar, seeing a result from a test when they were looking at something else.
Either way, I agree: the people involved had to be smart to be in the circumstance in the first place.
You didn’t mention enthusiasm in either paragraph.
No. I was just kinda looking at it from the reverse angle.
As was shampoo – which was supposed to be a cure for baldness and corn flakes – which was a desperate attempt to salvage an otherwise culinary disaster.
Before shampoo, people didn’t wash their hair??? Like, they didn’t rub soap on their heads?
I wasn’t there 🙂 but I am guessing it was soap during their monthly/yearly jump into a nearby lake.
You made me curious though, so I looked it up https://mimimatthews.com/2016/02/01/a-victorian-ladys-guide-to-hair-care-2/
I looked up corn flakes, too
http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/9-things-invented-or-discovered-by-accident9.htm
That’s right, I totally forgot that Post-Its were an accident too.
TTSP…..This too, shall pass.
Reblogged this on Anita Dawes & Jaye Marie.
Thank you!
I think I want to think on it a minute, and get back with you, but itâs been reblogged on campbellsworld.wordpress.com/
Thank you!
Enthusiasm is central to creating and getting the first rush from your idea. Without enthusiasm, there would be no creativity.
No doubt.
Meh. I think all things are possible, including greatness by happenstance. It might be rare, but it probably exists.
Contrarian.
I’ve been called worse 🙂