Hour By Hour Creativity is Your Power

Hour By Hour Creativity is Your Power: The clocks now hour. On this particular occasion, it silently struck at 3 AM. Which in turn created a restless sleep. You might guess that creativity never truly rests. It can strike at any hour. Wouldn’t it be a benefit to all if there was a timepiece that incrementally called out, “it’s time to be creative.” Our brains would just tune in and bask in that nurturing creative hour. Unfortunately, such a device does not exist. Creative thoughts and ideas have a sometimes annoying way of showing up when it may be most inconvenient. But when they do, they can be life-changing for the individual and life-changing for society as a whole.

The story: “For all intents and purposes, it was a restless night, to begin with.” It was not meant to be for Tazwell, an early to mid-1900s mining engineer, in a small town in the Colorado Rockies. Taz normally got a good night’s sleep because his daily work required a lot of concentration, stamina, and of course, very long hours. Early to bed, early to rise was the motto for all those that worked in the gold and silver mines of the region.

“I should be sleeping deeply,” Taz thought to himself as he looked at the pocket watch lying next to his bed. There was enough moonlight coming through the small isinglass window to clearly see it was 3 AM. This was an unusual occurrence; rarely did…