The Capital of Creativity
The source of all wealth isn’t found in mega corporations, financial markets or even your local bank. The source of all wealth springs forth from the creative impulse.
What else but creativity can be responsible for such inventions as the car, computer, airplane or electricity?
Intelligence and business acumen are necessary to transform a creative idea into a financial empire. The origin of any financial empire, however, is a novel idea.
Walt Disney reflected, “It all started when my daughters were very young and I took them to amusement parks on Sunday … I sat on a bench eating peanuts and looking all around me. I said to myself, dammit, why can’t there be a better place to take your children, where you can have fun together?”
From this single idea, the Disney Empire was born. (Current market capitalization: $46.5 Billion)
A creative idea—powered by human ingenuity—can produce the miraculous. This is true in any time period—especially in economic downturns.
George Gilder of the Discovery Institute writes, “The crucial conflict … is not between rich and poor, Main Street and Wall Street, or even government and the private sector. It is between the established system and the new forms of wealth rising up to displace it—all the entrenched knowledge of the past and the insurrections of futuristic enterprise and invention.”
Wealth is the natural consequence of fully aligning to the creative impulse. Cherish the capital of creativity, nurture it and witness the fruits of ingenuity.
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