Newton used it. Shakespeare used it. Beethoven used it. Alan Turing used it. You can use it too.
Many companies and educational organisations actively endorse and pursue strategies for innovation. There are books, articles and workshops on the subject. Networking and collaboration and other such tools are also used to speed up innovation. All these tools are certainly helpful in bringing about innovation, but they aren't its essence.
But at its heart, the process of innovation is really a mental exercise. Innovation becomes very probable when ideospheres connect or overlap with one another.
It is this mental, and most importantly, the physical act of Contemplation — stopping to do what you were doing, sitting on a chair or going for a walk, and only thinking and doing nothing else — that makes innovation possible. Contemplation is an innovation incubator.
Long periods of being able to stare into blankness is a prerequisite to bring about any innovation that has superior quality. Newton used it. Shakespeare used it. Beethoven used it. Alan Turing used it. You can use it too.
