Going from creative ideas to practical applications takes very pragmatic skills, like patient experimentation and testing, requiring total focus and concentration. As the classical poet Tao Yuan-ming declared, "When swept by a thought, I gladly forget to eat." And Thomas Edison is said to have once absent-mindedly cooked his own watch rather than the egg he intended.
而將創意落實為創造力，靠的是另一種紮實功夫，是全心全意、專心一致，就像陶淵明「每有會意，便欣然忘食」，或是愛迪生埋首實驗，把手錶當雞蛋烹煮而渾然未覺。