I had the pleasure of keynote speaking at the National Pharmaceutical Conference in Perth last weekend. The other keynote speaker was the wonderful Dr. Fiona Wood, Australian of the Year in 2005. In her presentation Fiona talked of how she and a colleague were working together and trying to apply sheets of skin tissue for a burns victim. In the struggle of this difficult work Fiona said to her colleague 'If only we could spray this stuff on'. Boom, eureka and magic. Later that day they both raced down to Jackson's Art Store and to the local supermarket and bought every spray nozzle can they could. Their prototype for the skin cell spray (ReCell® and Integra®) was an Italian Deodorant spray nozzle.
The message here is that often we say stuff:
* If only
* I wish
but don't notice that something worth catching has slipped out from our brain and mouth. Other times we might catch it (jot it down for instance) but then get too busy to do some hatching. Dr Woods noticed her sentence was worth both catching and hatching. Her on-going work and spray now do wonders and continue to make progress.
The other beauty of Dr Wood's presentation and work is the sheer entheos (enthusiasm and passion) she has for her work. It oozes. Perhaps even sprays.
Cap
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