新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第一册 unit08b_new

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[00:-1.00]My guests had arrived, but once again,
[00:-2.00]I'd forgotten to put the wine in the fridge.
[00:-3.00]"Don't worry,"a friend said,"I can chill it for you right away."
[00:-4.00]Five minutes later she emerged from the kitchen with the wine perfectly cooled.
[00:-5.00]Asked to reveal her secret,she said:
[00:-6.00]"I poured it in a plastic bag and dipped it in ice water."
[00:-7.00]My guests applauded."How wonderful if we could all be that clever,"one remarked.
[00:-8.00]A decade of enquiry has convinced me we can.
[00:-9.00]What separates the average person from Edison,Picasso or even Shakespeare
[00:10.00]isn't creative capacity.
[00:11.00]It's the ability to use that capacity by encouraging creative impulses
[00:12.00]and then acting upon them.
[00:13.00]Most of us seldom achieve our creative potential
[00:14.00]but the reservoir of ideas hiding within every one of us can be unlocked.
[00:15.00]The following techniques suggest concrete ways of increasing creativity:
[00:16.00]Capture the fleeting.A good idea is like a rabbit.
[00:17.00]It runs by so fast,sometimes you see only its ears or tail.
[00:18.00]To capture it,you must be ready.
[00:19.00]Creative people are always ready to act
[00:20.00]— possibly the only difference between us and them.
[00:21.00]In a letter to a friend in 1821,
[00:22.00]Ludwig van Beethoven wrote about thinking of a beautiful tune
[00:23.00]while half asleep in a carriage:
[00:24.00]"But scarcely did I awake when away flew the tune
[00:25.00]and I could not recall any part of it."
[00:26.00]Fortunately, for Beethoven and for us,
[00:27.00]the next day in the same carriage,
[00:28.00]the tune returned to him and he captured it in writing.
[00:29.00]When a good idea comes your way,write it down
[00:30.00]—on your arm if necessary.
[00:31.00]Not every idea will have value but capture it first and evaluate later.
[00:32.00]Daydream.Painter Salvador Dali used to lie on a sofa, holding a spoon.
[00:33.00]As he began to fall asleep, Dali would drop the spoon onto a plate on the floor.
[00:34.00]Shocked awake by the sound,
[00:35.00]he would immediately sketch the images seen in his mind in that fertile world of semi-sleep.
[00:36.00]Everyone experiences this strange state and can take advantage of it.
[00:37.00]Try Dali's trick,or just allow yourself to daydream.
[00:38.00]Often,the "three bs"— bed,bath and bus— are productive.
[00:39.00]Anywhere you can be with your thoughts undisturbed,
[00:40.00]you'll find ideas emerge freely.
[00:41.00]Seek challenges.
[00:42.00]Try inviting friends and business associates from different areas of your life to a party.
[00:43.00]Bringing people of different ages and social status together
[00:44.00]may help you think in new ways.
[00:45.00]Edwin Land, one of America's most productive inventors,
[00:46.00]claimed the idea leading to his invention of the Polaroid camera
[00:47.00]came from his three-year-old daughter.
[00:48.00]On a visit to Santa Fe in 1943,
[00:49.00]she asked why she couldn't see the picture he had just taken.
[00:50.00]uring the next hour, as Land walked around Santa Fe,
[00:51.00]all he had learned about chemistry came together:
[00:52.00]"The camera and the film became clear to me.
[00:53.00]In my mind they were so real that I spent several hours describing them."
[00:54.00]Expand your world.
[00:55.00]Many discoveries in science,engineering and the arts
[00:56.00]mix ideas from different fields.
[00:57.00]Consider "The Two-String Problem."
[00:58.00]Two widely separated strings hang from a ceiling.
[00:59.00]Even though you can't reach both at once,
[-1:00.00]is it possible to tie their ends together,using only a pair of pliers?
[-1:-1.00]One college student tied the pliers to one string
[-1:-2.00]and set it in motion like a pendulum.
[-1:-3.00]As it swung back and forth,
[-1:-4.00]he walked quickly to the other string and drew it as far forward as it would reach.
[-1:-5.00]Then he caught the swinging string when it passed near him and tied the two ends.