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What about the wonderful guys who invented luggage with wheels? And why exactly didn't someone invent it waaay back in the 60's? It wasn't like people weren't traveling by air then.

These and other questions will be answered by Pagan Kennedy as she takes you into the world of inventing. Kennedy looks at inventing in a different way. Not as an analysis of serendipity or the result of genus, but rather as something even children in workhouses could do. She looks into 'who invents' and what environment are they in. What do they face everyday that keeps them so focused through the discovery process. She also goes beyond that to look at crowd sourcing and other social factors.

She personally divides the book up into 5 parts: Problem Finding / Discovery / Strategy of Prophecy and Futuristic Thinking / Connection of Ideas / and finally Empowerment.

I found this book entertaining and thrilling. It was eye-opening in the sense that it gave me a structure and words to apply to the field of 'inventology'. And it was great to get the backstories on so many creations. My very very favorite story was of the MIT teacher who works in Africa with her engineering students to create vastly important solutions to everyday problems using very low tech designs.

Find out why frustration and repeated drudgery has to do with invention is a wonderful thing.

~review copy
~5th book of 2016