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[Dream that lead to real-life invention]
A man was in a jungle surrounded by saages. They were coming menacingly close to him, their spears rising, then descending. Each spear had a hole in the tip. When he awoke he saw this dream as the answer to a problem that had him stymied: how to design a sewing machine. He could make the needle rise and descend, but not sew - until his dream told him to put the hole at the tip. The man was Elias Howe, who invented the first practical sewing machine.
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― The Silva Mind Control Method
― The Silva Mind Control Method
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Normal is where innovation goes to die.
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― The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
― The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret












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