The gap between idea and inventing. Everyone has many ideas. Fewer, less so, take the first step to bring those ideas closer to reality. The idea is perfect, untainted, idealized in the head. It is still an abstract, metaphysical form. It is everything it potentially can be, without being anything. For an idea, it’s safer to be in the mind and imagination, free from criticism, free from the disappointment, free from rejection. That’s why many ideas will remain locked up inside.
But the first step from idea to inventing, the actual process of creating something. The first step in materializing an abstract idea from the ether into reality. Metaphysical to physical. Inventing are the details, the plans, schematics, outlines, architecture, getting from point A to point B. This is the first step in knowledge creation. This the first step in creating something from nothing.