We need to be able to disengage from the pressures of the moment, from the demands that other people place on us, from the sounds of activity and haste that surround the business world. We need to be able to focus on our challenges in absolute silence for a time. If we do, we'll often find that the new approaches we need to make in order to make sense of the problems that face us will reveal themselves to us more or less on their own. But if we don't build silence into our day, we may find that we have lost the ability to listen to the voice that is giving us the answers. And by the way, solitude is different from isolation.
Isolation is aimless, painful, exhausting and limiting.
Solitude is productive, joyous, energizing and absolutely essential to no-limits achievement. Because creativity is the clear voice heard in silence. Copyright 1998 by the author. Published by Career Press, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417. All rights reserved.