Inspiration

     I’m sitting in front of my computer and thinking: I need a good topic to write about for my next blog post.  I need some inspiration for a good topic!  Wait!  Why don’t I make inspiration my next good topic?  That sounded like a good idea to me.  

     You’ve probably heard that “necessity is the mother of invention”.  That is, when the need for something becomes imperative, you are forced to find ways of getting or achieving it. There’s not a 100% fact of the origin of that statement although it has been attributed to Plato.  Nevertheless, the statement is sound and basically easy to understand.   When you REALLY need to have something, create a process, or otherwise come up with some new way (or perhaps easier way) of getting something done --- you do it!

     Now that’s not to say this process is the ONLY way new things or processes get created.  Take for example penicillin.  Penicillin was first discovered in 1928, by Scottish scientist Sir Alexander Fleming. It was a mistake.  He left a petri dish with staphylococcus open and later found it with a green - blue mould in it.  The discovery was made after leaving his desk untidy while on holiday.  It was only later he discovered it had bacteria fighting agents and could be sued as an anti body.  So one of your best used medical discoveries was only an accident!

     Here’s one you might not have hear about.  You know about Post-it notes.  You’ve probably used them at your office or somewhere in your home.  We can’t really get through a day without them at times.  You might be surprised about how they were invented.  Consider this little tidbit from http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/postit.htm.  “No one got the idea and then stayed up nights to invent it.  A man named Spencer Silver was working in the 3M research laboratories in 1970 trying to find a strong adhesive.  Silver developed a new adhesive, but it was even weaker than what 3M already manufactured.  It stuck to objects, but could easily be lifted off.  It was super weak instead of super strong.  No one knew what to do with the stuff, but Silver didn’t discard it.  Then one Sunday four years later, another 3M scientist named Arthur Fry was singing in the churches choir.  He used markers to keep his place in the hymnal, but they kept falling out of the book.  Remembering Silver’s adhesive, Fry used some to coat his markers.  Success!  With the weak adhesive, the markers stayed in place, yet lifted off without damaging the pages.  3M began distributing Post-it Notes nationwide in 1980 – ten years after Silver developed the super weak adhesive.  Today they are one of the most popular office products available.”

     I’m not sure if you’re ready for this one.  Do any of you remember eating the “ice cream of the future” –Dippin’ Dots?  You may not want to know that it was originally invented because a man who yogurt bacteria for cattle wanted to freeze his ice cream faster.  In 1987, Curt Jones was just a microbiologist researching how to quick-freeze yogurt bacteria to use in animal feed.  Within a year, he had created his confection by flash freezing ice cream mix in liquid nitrogen.  At negative 320 degrees, the liquid gas is cold enough to instantly freeze anything that is added to it.  He says: “I grew up on a farm and used to make homemade ice cream a lot.  Working on the yogurt bacteria, I found the little beads fun to play with.  Then a month or two later, I was making ice cream with a neighbor and decided it would be better if we could freeze it faster, like we were doing with the yogurt.”  And the rest is history as they say.

     So maybe it’s time for you to have an accident, invent a mistake, or try to save yourself some time in making your favorite snack.  From your inspiration the rest of us may gain a bit more enjoy out of life!

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QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"If I inspire to be great,

then great is what I'll be."