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Where inspirations for inventions come from
By Robert Worstell
Where do your get your inspiration for creating new inventions? Where do the genius among us get their ideas? It's not all that hard to figure out - people have been telling us this for years. Napoleon Hill gave us the broad strokes in his "Think and Grow Rich". In that book, he tells of a Dr. Gates, who was known for an amazing amount of patents, working as a consultant to firms which needed new approaches to their problems. Gates' technique? He sat in a dark room with paper and pen to the ready, his hand on a light switch. Then he simply concentrated on the data to hand about that subject - and nothing else. When he got an inspired thought about what he had his attention on, he would turn on the light and begin writing as fast as he could. His success with this method proved very lucrative, and he was in constant demand for his services. Edison, who executed 1,093 successful patent applications, also filed between 5-600 additional. He had a little bit different approach to this subject, but at the same time really followed the same basics. Edison took a nap when confronted with a problem or an impasse. His naps were short, and he took around 14 every day (needing only 3-4 hours sleep at night). But he didn't take these because he was tired - he took them for inspiration. If you study this out in the self-help classic bestsellers, you can find a common set of principles which each of these genius apply in order to find their inspiration: 1. Take some time to get quiet everyday. Some use this time for meditation, others for prayer. The idea is to simply relax and let your mind quiet. 2. Try Edison's nap solution, or otherwise put your attention on the situation you are trying to solve just before sleep - don't look for solutions, just concentrate on known data. 3. Use Hill's chapter 24 and form an imaginary "Master Mind" of advisers, which you can meet with during this silent time daily. 4. Validate your intuition and practice this regularly. The more you practice at this, the better you will get. Trust your hunches. 5. Help others improve their own native genius abilities. If only positive encouragement -- as you help others, you will receive help yourself. As you can see, many different authors wrote about the above steps. They don't have to be done in any sequence. But the more you use these tools, the easier and faster your inspiration will come to you. And so you'll be able to let your native inventive talent shine! Good luck with this.
Dr. Robert C. Worstell produces prolific output while living and operating a working farm in Missouri. Having published over 4 dozen books, numerous articles, whitepapers, presentations and videos, his current book about Sedona release techniques is entitled "Freedom Is - (period.)" And another book on spiritual training is on the way. Meanwhile, he's busy running the farm and improving the quality of his grassfed beef cattle and general farming operations.
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Contributor's Note
The extra link was a video I created in 2008 as both book promotion and in order to help people with their inspiration. The points haven't changed, since they were extracted from some very old material, as well as some more recent self help bestsellers. I use this myself with my writing, and this has given me more the "problem" of how to turn off the spigot, than having nothing to write about...
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Thank you for sharing this great advise, Robert. The words of the old-time authors still ring true today. Thanks again for bring back the memories.
Best wishes.
Frederick
These techniques also work if writing a new novel. Many time my wife wakes up and says she has worked out problems she has been having with a story and quickly goes and writes it down.
These methods probably do help. I know I come up with my ideas when I'm doing other things, taking a break or a day off.
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