How many times do you find that you start going left, drawing a square, but the final solution is behind you, and it does not look like your original design at all as it is a tubular circle with spots?
I have always believed that there is at least one solution to every problem. Often more. “No” is not a word in my vocabulary.
That it takes time to spin around in many directions, finding half solutions, odd ones, silly ones, but through this process, the solution will appear, often when I am going in the “wrong” direction according to societal rules. There is no “quick fix.”
On April 4th, Behance sent me a new blog, that itemized how I think and find solutions.
What It Takes To Innovate: Wrong-Thinking, Tinkering & Intuiting
Polaroid co-founder Edwin Land said, “The test of an invention is the power of [the] inventor to push it through in the face of staunch – not opposition, but indifference – in society.” Great ideas and inventions are often shunned or ignored before they are accepted. It makes sense then that inventors tend to be a hearty sort: they don’t mind failure, they don’t care what others think, and they’re willing to work really damn hard.
Surveying our favorite creators past and present, we identified the core traits of serial inventors – characteristics that any rogue creative would do well to develop…
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