Go fishing with Edison
THE PRINCIPLE
Pretending to be busy gives you time to think
Thomas Edison is one of the great heroes in the annals of creativity, a man tireless in his pursuit of inventions and breakthroughs. He was also an avid fisherman and (naturally) invented a fishing rod.
James Newton, who knew Edison personally, wrote: ‘When Mr. Edison ran into a particularly difficult problem, he took his constantly expanding knowledge, a pole, line and hook down to his dock and fished.’
Edison often came back without any fish and only later revealed why. He wrote: ‘Because it was my fishing time, my staff did not disturb me, and as I used no ...
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