"Walls are in the mind"– this is one of the suggestions deployed along the "Path of meditation" in the Island of San Giulio on Lake Orta in northern Italy, west of Lake Maggiore. Playing the game of open innovation, we change our mind. As Virgil (The Aeneid, III, 72, quoted by Seneca, Epistulae morales to Lucilius, III, 28) says, “…terraeque urbesque recedunt” (“… leave the cities and the shores behind”). Passion combined with determination can produce outstanding results. According to “The First Word to Cross the Ocean”, one out of five “historical miniatures” by Stefan Zweig, leveraging the power of electricity, it was his passion together with the will to succeed in the bold enterprise that allowed Cyrus W. Field to bring about the laying of submarine cables for telegraphic transmissions between Europe and America.
