Doctor Richard U. Hamming in the lecture "You and Your Opening" told how to make great discovery. He emphasized that any average person is capable of it. The main thing is to make efforts of the mind correctly. Hamming generalized the experience in the Bell Labs company where side by side worked with great scientists of the present.
Instruction
1. For a start it is necessary to reject all conventions and to ask itself one honest question: "Why don't I make something considerable in the life?" Any person is capable of it. The main thing – intention.
2. It is necessary to cease to believe in good luck and to believe that great opening is a result of hard work. "Good luck is kind to the prepared mind". If your mind is prepared, sooner or later, you will achieve result and will catch the good luck. Good luck is a result of your efforts.
3. To make great discovery, courage is necessary. Courage to put forward the ideas and courage to defend them. Courage to formulate the thoughts and courage to ask questions and to ask questions.
4. It is possible to be courageous in expression of the thoughts only in case you believe that at you it will turn out to make great discovery.
5. It is necessary to work on small tasks. Small, but important. You have to can do tasks. As soon as you try to solve to a descent a global problem, you suffer a defeat. You remember, the mind has to be prepared.
6. A great discovery is quite often made in working conditions which are considered to be difficult, nonideal, uncomfortable. Creative process needs a framework. When you get to difficult working conditions, it is important not to be given. It is important to think how to overcome them. To look for decisions as a shortcoming it is possible to make advantage.
7. Great opening demands emotional investments in a problem with which you deal. You need the drive, enthusiasm, passion. If you do not feel pleasure from your work, hardly you will be able to make in it great discovery.
8. It is necessary to support a certain level of criticality concerning your ideas and theories. If you believe in them too strongly, you are not capable to develop them. If you see too many shortcomings, you get to the deadlock. The balance between belief and doubt is necessary.
9. To make great discovery, it is necessary to work on important problems in your area. You have to realize what contribution you will make in development of society, civilizations if you work on your problem. If you spend your time for unimportant problems, it will be impossible to achieve success.
10. Great opening demands serious investments. It is necessary to work on a problem, to devote it time maximum. Something should be sacrificed, and here it is necessary to choose. Working more diligently, you can perform more works will move ahead on the way to the great opening quicker. Than you learn more, quicker you study those.
11. Distract less in the course of work. Work "behind closed doors". Do not allow anybody to destroy your concentration. To make great discovery, it is necessary to be concentrated, collected. Finally it appears an important factor in achievement of success.
12. Do not try to solve a single problem. Work on your task so that your decision solved a class of problems. It is necessary to abstract from specifics. The work you have to create a basis for work of those who will solve similar problems in the future.