How To Find Ideas

If you keep the following sentence in mind, you'll constantly place yourself in the best position to find what you're looking for.

"Ideas are always around you wherever you may be, no matter what you are doing."

They're in front of you, beside you and behind you. You're probably sitting on one right now.

To the trained eye and the receptive brain ideas are forever waiting there to be discovered.

Once you understand that ideas actually exist, that they are constantly around you, you simply have to set out to find them and combine them. Once you've done that, you'll have found your new idea.

Think of every thing you have ever experienced in life and every thing you know up until now as being "old elements", by doing this, the key to finding a new idea is simple-

The combination of these "old elements" will always lead to new solutions. New solutions = New Ideas (& vice versa)

In 1903 Mary Anderson took a rubber squeegee arm and attached it to a motor. In doing so, she invented the Wind-screen Wiper. This became standard equipment on cars a decade later.

In 1920 Earle Dickson, an employee at Johnson & Johnson, used an adhesive tape and attached a sterile bandage to it. In doing so he invented the BAND-AID®, a portable, easy-to-use wound dressing.

In 1951 Bette Graham took White Tempera Artists Paint and painted it on to white paper which contained typed printed material. She began selling her vastly popular invention, and soon the "Liquid Paper" company was born.