You might have thought that invention was an art that is restricted to no more than a few people in a generation. But is it just possible that by taking a different path you just may be able to become a successful inventor?
Tying in error
Why you were very tiny you had a great problem working out how to tie up your shoes. You were shown how to make bunny rabbit ears from the laces, and fold them over, under and back again until they made a knot. Now you know that the first few times that you did it, tying your shoelace was a disaster. But after a few more tries it became really easy.
Intellect schmitellect
Did it take the intellect of a genius to crack this problem? Were you injected with intelligence serum in order to jump over this technology bump that you were stalled against? I would suggest that was not the case and that by being given a workshop and by learning a technique that just like millions of others you managed to overcome the problem.
Did you learn to drive a car? And did the exhilaration of your first drive wear down a little? Didn't you find that in end it wasn't as bead as you thought it was? By learning to live with your fear and adopting new brain programming it became a doddle!
Invention is a doddle
Why is it that we believe that inventing solutions has to be any different? We think that because everyone's brain is different that it's obvious that some people can do certain tasks better than others. It's true that each brain has been trained to do different things, and that is a fact of the unique experiences that each one of us has encountered during our lifetime.
That doesn't mean that we shouldn't learn new skills, but that each of us has to decide whether they want to invest their processing and memory resources in each task.
Re-program your brain
Brain programming can be broken down into steps, and in much the same way that we learned to tie our show laces, so we can learn the steps that are needed to trigger our brains to become innovators. Training the brain to do any new task is difficult, but not impossible. The teacher needs to understand the coding that the subject has already programmed in, and adapt it to understand a new brain program.
Coming up with new ideas is very much that type of process. Take an individual or a group and add a small spark of brain programming and the lazy old brain will do the rest.
