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Tue 29 Mar 94 18:05
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By: David Arnold
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To: All
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Re: Tesla on Creative Work
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excerpts from a 1919 article by Tesla (Electrical Experimenter, Page 493-495).
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The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the
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most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the
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complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces
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of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is
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often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the
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pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that
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exceptionally priviliged class without whom the race would have long ago
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perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements.
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- - - - -
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I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am,
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if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of
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my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a
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specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy. I never paid
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such a price. On the contrary, I have thrived on my thoughts.
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- - - - -
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A powerful desire to live and to continue the work, and the assistance of a
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devoted friend and athlete accomplished the wonder. My health returned and with
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it the vigot of mind. In attacking the problem again I almost regretted that
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the struggle was soon to end. I had so much energy to spare. When I undertook
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the task it was not with a resolve such as men often make. With me it was a
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sacred vow, a question of life and death. I knew that I would perish if I
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failed.
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* Origin: RAD BBS, Melrose, Oregon (93:9705/4)
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