On Transcending the Ordinary Understanding of Productivity

We need to transcend the ordinary understanding of what it means to be productive. We need to transcend our mind with fiction – even “comic book” heroics. I sometimes imagine my life and work unfolding while I am chained to a wheelchair. How could I extend, expand my thinking if my body was limited? It is a thought that has occupied my mind since I was a child. Once I have worked through the implications of this hypothetical condition, I add back my full physical capabilities and ask myself, “What does it mean to have all of this health – this robust capacity – and to be only a thought away from life-changing, world-impacting discovery”?