Inventiveness-Improving

Suggestions to improve your ability to invent:

Develop a desire to invent.

Avoid becoming involved in emotional causes that will consume your mental
energy.

Become familiar with inventions by reviewing the 'Patent Gazette' regularly.

Do whatever you can to become familiar with unusual physical phenomena.

Establish a depth of understanding of all phenomena that comes only with true
insight into their operation.

Realize that there may be areas of engineering and science with which you
should
be familiar but which were not included in your formal training.

Never discard products that failed before finding out how they worked and
why they failed.

Improve your hands-on working ability.

Take appropriate steps to acquire the necessary facilities to try out your ideas.

Immerse yourself in a climate of creativity.

Recognize that opportunities vary depending upon the maturity of the

technology.

Realize that there are jobs in industry which are not conducive to invention.

As soon as you can identify a need which is important enough for you to initiate
invention effort, start a notebook or folder in which every idea is recorded.

Set aside a portion of each work day or work week to consider how you can
improve
your company's product.

Take your time in seeking a solution to significant problems.

William H. Middendorf (1981). WHAT EVERY ENGINEER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT INVENTING.
Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, USA.