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While listening to that story, I suddenly knew why Charles Nash rose from the lowest ranks to the highest possible ranks and then beyond: Nash broke the code for creativity written in numbers, which opened the window to creativity in his mind. Indeed, everything Nash did, he thought in numbers. First, he figured the cost of a power hammer versus the cost of his own labor. Second, he created a unique drill-press attachment, driven by a desire to double output. Third, he determined how to spend more money on better tacks to decrease loses and improve profits. Nash befriended numbers and paid attention to their story!
Using numbers to open the window to creativity in his mind, this young, inexperienced novice could see creative business advancements in a few days that veterans could not see in their whole lives. The numbers-integrating mode quickly lifted Nash out of the specialized routine rut of pounding iron all day long. That routine rut had trapped others for many years...and would have trapped them for life if not for rising creative thinkers like Charles Nash who pulled up society, standards of living, and opportunities for everyone.
While thinking about Nash, suddenly an earth-moving thought shook me: All money/power giants came to a point in their lives where they suddenly discovered this window to creativity! They all reached a point in their lives where they passionately studied the numbers. I had read about, for instance, how late into the night a young John D. Rockefeller could be seen hovering over a desk covered with accounting and marketing numbers. Rockefeller always said he had discovered "a whole other fascinating world" through the numbers. And that was when business took on great excitement for him. ...Of course!
Suddenly, I realized that common denominator resided in history's most successful people. The turning point came early in their careers when they discovered a whole new world through the numbers: Pierre S. du Pont, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, William C. Durant, Juan Trippe, Alfred P. Sloan, J. Paul Getty, Jay Gould, Milton Hershey, Walter Chrysler, Thomas Watson, Harold Geneen, Robert E. Wood. "Of course!" I cried out. "They discovered an exciting new world as the numbers opened their windows to creativity!"
Looking through that window into an exciting new world of creations and profits unlocked Nash's creativity. To double output, among other things, he became creative and rigged the drill press. If not for looking at the details in terms of improving the numbers, Nash would have never seen through them to the creative side. He would have just kept pounding or stitching away, forever blocked from creativity, forever trapped in a rut. Instead, driven by the numbers, peering through the window to creativity in everything he did, he eventually entered the world of profitable creations. That whole other fascinating world led to the designing and manufacturing of his own cars...cars such as the famous Nash Rambler once driven all over America's roads. That enormous creativity and talent would have forever remained behind a wall, trapped inside a dark corner of Nash's mind had he not discovered the window to his creativity. ...At that moment while listening about Nash, I knew that powerful creativity existed in me and in all of us -- locked inside a dark corner of our minds as we blindly serve our leaders.
"This is it," I wrote in my diary. "I've discovered the real freeing mechanism. Breaking the code for creativity written in numbers gives me a whole new level of almost total independence."
The following days at work, I broke from any residual trace of the externally guided or following mode. For, now numbers became my compass for internal guidance. "Seek numbers," I kept telling myself. "Seek the story that the numbers reveal!" I knew I must become emotionally tied to numbers, for becoming motivated over improving the numbers would free my creativity.
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