Toiling At Windmills

Marketing and Innovation, said to be the foundation blocks of a successful business, require creative thinking. But when thought is cornered and beat to a pulp, it feels a little dangerous to think. And when creativity is burned alive, or worse, ignored into an ice age of frozen regard, you are easily dissuaded. But if it were easy, everyone would do it and those among us who are courageous (are there any here?) wouldn't bother. I think of courage like a child thinks of courage: explorers, scientists, generals - all working under terrible mental and physical conditions with the aim of carrying on despite the odds. And they are rarely self conscious about it, until after, if they survive and in the comfort of the cottage in the country or their Frank Lloyd Wright - inspired glass house on a cliff over looking a turbulent sea. I don't want to even think about myself in these ranks. But, if you want to explore it through the eyes of an eccentric who leaves no prisoners, in short, a courageous man with a pen, you could do no better than to look up Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey. I especially enjoyed "The End of General Gordon." Now there was a hero!