Ideas and Inventions by questioning everyday life

Btw i'm not a regular writer or a thinker (although i use that name to post entries here). This is my first attempt at public writing and blogging. And it all started with a what if i start writing about ideas. If this attempt succeeds i owe it to my friends who have convinced me into blogging.

Most people think that great ideas and inventions are generated by a complex chemical reaction that happens in the brain cells of only an elite section of the society who possesses the right chemicals for such a process to occur. The members of this elite section are calledand the complex chemical process their. But very rarely do they even question about what makes the geniuses different from them rather than taking it for granted. And that in itself is the biggest differentiator. Geniuses question. They don't.Quite some years back I watched a hindi movie where the illustrious Paresh Rawal plays the character of a. In the movie the character was that of an irritating man who questions the obvious - irrelevantly and unnecessarily - with the aim to tickle the funny bones of the audience. Although in the reel lifedoesn't portray abut in real life is it quite the other way round. A Question Mark Man, in real life, is actually one who we know as a Genius. Although a genius, unlike the movie, doesn't irritate others by questioning but questions themselves.Some of the world's best discoveries have been made by questioning the obvious. Would Sir Isaac Newton have discovered the laws of gravity without questioning the falling apple or Archimedes discover principles of buoyancy without questioning the floating bodies ( although it would have been much better, atleast for him, to not think about it while having a bath :-) ).What about inventions? We all know that discoveries and inventions are different. Discovery is one of the first steps for any invention. Invention can be arrived at primarily from two directions - i) by application of a discovery ii) finding a solution to an unsolved problem. Invention of submarines, applying Archimedes' Principles, is an example of the former and that of internet or the world wide web, a solution to the problem of general communication between various computers, is an example of the latter.So behind every great discovery and invention there is a process of questioning the obvious rather than thinking hard to come up with a novel thing totally from the scratch. Actually there is really nothing that is totally novel. Every new idea that has been generated ever since the origin of mankind till date have actually been by questioning what we see and perceive which was otherwise easily ignored or in attempt to find solution to a problem.is so true.The great inventors are all geniuses. But their ingenuity is not in their ability to cook up totally new theories in their mind but their ability to effectively question the things than an average person ignores and follow through with utmost patience and perseverance till they arrive at a plausible explanation and then apply their discoveries for the greater benefit of mankind.Ingenuity is not a gift to a few selected members of the human species. It is something that we all are born with. We use them in various degrees in our day to day life. Just that we don't realize it. We do question and come up with better ways of doing things than others and soon they follow. How many times have you been in a traffic jam at a junction and said "What if I turn left and take this other route?". You take the turn although you are quite unsure about the new route and you find that all of a sudden there are a few other cars that start following you. What you had was an idea. An idea which started off with questioning the obvious that other drivers didn't think of.But is questioning all that is required? No you also need to have the courage, patience and perseverance to go ahead and find the answer to it. Just questioning the possibility of a new driving route is not enough. You have to drive on it. It is not always that you find an answer to what you question. You may have 100 failures before you even discover something. You may realize that the idea of taking a new route was a mistake because it had a dead end. But one big discovery is probably worth a thousand failures. On the other hand you may have discovered that the new route actually saves you half an hour of driving time everyday during the peak time traffic.People see and remember the inventors by the success that they had. But hardly do anyone ponder over the failures that they have gone through. We know Thomas Alva Edison by his successful inventions but not by his failed inventions . Inventors are Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are the risk takers. High returns almost always comes packaged with high risks. People who invest in stock markets probably understand this better. Unless you take the risk, you can never hope for high returns.Entrepreneur doesn't mean only someone who have started their own business. Anyone who questions the obvious, strives hard to find a solution, is unperturbed by the failures but is constantly fuelled by the passion to solve the unsolved and has the courage to take risks for the high returns (definition of high returns is tied to the expectations and hence varies from person to person) is an entrepreneur. We all have the ability to become entrepreneurs in various modes of life. We need to start by questioning even the most trivial of things and try to come up with better approaches.This blog is all about generating ideas by questioning things. Not that we will come up with revolutionary concepts but nevertheless we will try. Feel free to submit your thoughts and ideas as comments here.Lets all have aon our foreheads. Lets all become