Why sad? Leisure makes you creative. That’s great.

You are probably right .Thanks Evelyn

Walking, driving, in the shower and sometimes right before sleep. These places and activities are known as common for alot of people. It is simply common times when the “thinking” part of the brain can calm and the subconscious can slip some ideas through as it is thought the subconscious mind does alot of the problem solving when we don’t even realize.

This where the light bulb over head comes from…the subconscious mind “pops” on like a light bulb. I read books on this stuff…how the creative mind thinks and about the creative genius.

Einstein used to calm his “thinking” mind when he reached a “block” (similar to writer’s block) by playing the piano. He would jump up from the piano many different times saying "I got it "! The piano playing would allow deep down thinking by the subconscious mind to come up with the idea…or so that is the theory…and Einstein’s family recalls him using the piano to finish off figuring out ideas.

For me a long walk was always best.

Ron Komorowski
Inventor of Handi-Straps
www.handi-straps.com

The pillowcase idea came to me because my head was freezing in the motor home in a snow storm. The RV step cover idea came to me when the motor home step cover rotted off after just a year. In both cases, necessity was the cause.

I also often come up with ideas when i am faced with a problem so i jot it down in my note book and later research it on the computer…about 99% of the time i find out that it already exists in at least one form if not several.

A lot of the time we are too busy with every day challenges and getting a beer to chill us out for the next day. I think that we are all walking past new inventions all the time and we cannot see the woods for the trees. Also when a new product is born sometimes it creates a new problem if you happen to see this you may be able to ride on its shirt tales . In December we had to install some new products in stores around UK and I found a new installation problem. Most people will struggle on and bodge their way through the fit i have commissioned the prototype for a new product and look forward to testing it soon.

(Wasn’t this a thread topic before? Anyhow)

Regarding : " I think that we are all walking past new inventions all the time and we cannot see the woods for the trees."

After reading the book “Calendar” recently, I was telling someone that the New Year was not always marked by January first; some cultures started the year at different times, in one instance what we now call ‘March’.

They simply could not get their minds around this. They said “How could Januaryt 1st be in March??” A lifetime of seeing calendars marked January-December, and celebrating the New Year shortly after Christmas had simply ingarined the idea that the New Year begins in January. (And ignores that every year the newspaper runs an article about ‘Chinese New Year’.)

So it is with most people most times, and I admit to usually operating in that mode.

There are other ways to be an inventor, but often it is the person who realizes there are other ways to do things than “how its always been done.”

Well, I don’t have many ideas (yet, wink wink), but the ones I do have usually come out of necessity to fix something that is annoying me or a problem. I definitely can’t force an idea. I think it is pretty cool that some people can come up with an idea based on an LPS. I guess my brain doesn’t work that way. It is idea first, LPS match second.

Since I found EN, I’m seeing every problem/annoyance as an opportunity which is so much fun. Even when I learn that someone has already tackled a particular problem, I love the new perspective this “inventing bug” has giving me. I also love that moment when you get an idea, even if it never pans out, that moment of possibility is great! I think my husband thought I was crazy but now I have a G7, so he is thinking maybe I’m not so crazy. LOL

Hi Carrie i am also allergic to struggling so this makes me want to problem solve. Good look Carrie i hope you go all the way.

Thank you, David. I also tend to think best when my brain is turned off. I guess I think a lot in the shower. Only problem is I sometimes get lost in my thoughts and forget if I’ve washed my hair already and end up washing it twice. I go through shampoo rather quickly. Ha ha.

I also hear voices….and they tell me new invention ideas…and other things. I think it’s the invention fairy whispering in my ear.

The truth is – the best inventors are smart, creative, lazy people

Instead of lazy I prefer “I have a labor allergy” or “labor intollerance” LOL

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Your crazy Mark…I’ve hung around the inventor/innovator/engineer/ tinkerer almost inventor all my life. Heck…when I was a very young kid if I saw a hood open I would go over to learn about engines as all machines fascinated me and the people who world attempt to fix them.

These people are problem solvers too who fix the problems themselves instead of waiting for someone else to fix it.

Instead of watching some stupid show on TV with a bag of chips, the inventor, innovator is always researching, building, fixing, tinkering. If he deserves the name inventor then his true trait is RELENTLESS in effort to become that one in 10,000 people who is an inventor.

Real inventors will spend EXTENDED hours foregoing sleep in a garage or basement to finish figuring. If you are an inventor you know this.

Think of how many hours Thomas Edison spent in his lab making 2000 light bulbs!!!! He could have made 2 or 3 and then went fishing and say screw it…THAT would be lazy…but THAT is not the trait of the inventor.

The inventor is not lazy. Maybe some scammer looking to get rich quick with some ridiculous get rich quick contraption that took 10 minutes of thought…and some of those people are labeled inventors I guess because people have no other easier name for them…but I do…

RE: "Instead of lazy I prefer “I have a labor allergy” or “labor intollerance” LOL

You are not alone;

“I was loath to do it myself, for from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be.”

Mark Twain.

It has nothing to do with how hard an inventor works, or a bag of chips, or any of the other conclusions you jump to when someone uses the word “lazy”.

When it comes to invention lazy is often a good thing.

Mark…inventing is part of INSTINCT of man to continue evolution; to continue to survive and as a realization also of survival of the fittest. THAT is the inventor/innovator as been in history.

There are 3 kinds of people. Those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those that wonder what happened. Pretty true assessment.

Th inventor is the one that takes the initiative to get up off their ass and make things happen like all the people here….who could be spending their time watching Seinfield reruns instead of spending time learning here.

According to you then Handi-Straps would be your classic example…as you would think…a device to make work easier for people. So far from the truth and not the inventor’s typical intent either.

The intent and hope of any real inventor would be to perform more work actually, and do it safer so there is no down time and even more work is performed.

It’s human nature Mark…can’t fight it. Human beings live for ONE thing or else we’d all jump to our deaths from trees willfully. That is CHALLENGE. Challenge makes our lives amusing. If we win that challenge we make life better, not easier….easier would be living in trees in jungles.

THE INVENTOR is such a special specimen of the human race. Getting off their ass and making evolution happen for everyone else and the first to dare the unknown challenge at HIS OWN expense. He usually doesn’t ever see any rewards as it sometimes takes a generation for inventions’ acceptance and this is invention history, or he is only part of historic change and never gets a dime for his work.

How dare you call the inventor lazy??? Now take that back Mark…not good for you to say.

Look at some of the wonderful things we do to. Invent a toy and make kids all over the world happier for a little bit. Invent a kitchen gadget to save time so moms have more time to read bedtime stories to kids…..and so on…that stuff is in inventor’s heads but only I can explain it best.

The inventor is a WONDERFUL human being! NOT LAZY!

Ron Komorowski
Inventor of Handi-Straps
www.handi-straps.com

Good post Ron

Ron, Stand still, tilt your head back and look up – that was my point going right over your head.
But for your sake I’ll explain it again.

Lazy is often the catalyst for innovation. Think of it this way –

Maybe I have a spot on the ceiling of my living room. I really don’t want to go out and get the ladder and set it all up, so I look around and find a pole and some tape. I tape my brush to the pole and paint the spot. Because I was LAZY I started solving the problem outside the box. Please tell me you can see that….please

And PLEASE, save the lectures – I know all about inventing, I know all about product development, and I know all about fulfillment and distribution….and most importantly, I know all about the mind of an inventor.

The glass is half full or the glass is half empty. You have your analysis and I have mine.

LAZY is not the analysis for the inventor. In your analysis stupidity may fit best. The inventor is NOT one that falls into the large category of STUPIDITY and that is good. He finds a better way which has nothing to do with lazy.

Mark…use your head! Don’t call us here lazy! That is WRONG. I’m working on Handi-Straps for over 10 years now as well as a big pile of other inventions…like everyone else….while the general public is watching some game on TV or something.

For all you have to contribute to this field, contributing the label LAZY to us is a GREAT setback to you and your efforts!

Do you know Mark, that the magazine Inventors Digest was never profitable before the people of EN owned it? Do you know what the asking price of the magazine was as offered to me (the messenger) and the people I knew who might take it by Joanne Rhynes ? $0.00…again…$0.00

I know things out there were better before these guys took over the magazine…the WONDERFUL guys Louis Foreman and Muke Drummond the editor. These guys are losing on the magazine but wish to help inventors to help the cause.

All that work for Inventors Digest…FOR NOTHING…NO MONEY…NO PROFIT…but yo help all us inventors do our thing. How could you call the inventor and his mindset lazy? That is an INSULT to all of us as you say you are a manufacturer and I have never said you were an inventor.

Hi Mark
Maybe i have a 60 light bulbs to change in a warehouse and i an too old to be climbing tower scaffold, I still need to make a wage and work ,So i invent the scissor lift. Not developed form laziness but from necessity and efficiency.
Never liked the word Lazy i associate it with counter production.

That too David…it was NOT a putdown to anyone! wow – how hard is it to see the point I was making?

Mark- It’s often because of your choice of words or delivery that is suggestive of a personal attack of one’s character.

As Bubba may of said someone’s “lazy” when an other would of said “finding an easier way.”

There isn’t any doubt of your level of knowledge, or the lack of appreciation for expert advice, just need a little respect….would you call yourself lazy?

My two cents is as long as there are lazy people in this world, there will always be a need for inventors to make our lives easier.

My two cents, I think of ideas to make my job easier not because I’m lazy by any means but so I can be more efficient at what I do, which means it could save people money in the long run and I’m able to move more quickly to the next job. In all the cases of my ideas they are to make people’s lives easier because spending less time doing some things can give us more time to do things we enjoy.
I’m pretty sure there are those who invent things that are on the lazy side and probably have no qualm in admitting it, which is fine, because they’re ideas very useful like anybody else’s

I work about 75 hours each and every week. But the answer to your question Susan is still YES – I would call myself lazy all day long. I will always look for an easier way or a more efficient way to do something – not because I want to save the world, but because I would rather be doing something else instead.

I hear people all the time tell me they want to start a business around something they love to do. That’s the dumbest thing you can do, because when you do that eventually it ruins that thing you loved to do. Start a business around something you hate to do, that will motivate you to build your company faster so you have others actually doing that think you hate to do yourself.

You see lazy is every bit as important a motivation as hate, or greed, or desire….anything that evokes emotion is a motivation. Lazy is just one that translates well to innovation.

I shure don’t agree with that one Mark…I for one don’t want to spend my days doing something i don’t like and have been doing work i enjoy for many years. I also think LAZY is just one of those words with negative conotations connected to it and is most often used as an insult. Although i always look for easier ways to do things I would not appreciate being called lazy because it is percieved in a negative way.

Two places/times come to mind when ideas arrive in my head, laying in bead right before i fall asleep, I usually have to jump up and sketch it really quick before I forget and at work random thoughts pop in all the time.