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Inventology

By Pagan Kennedy

How We Dream Up Things That Change the World. Eamon Dolan Books, 2016.

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16 mins read

14 Key insights

A brief summary of Inventology

An uplifting exploration of the methods inventors follow when dreaming up new ideas and innovating old ones, with real-life stories that demonstrate how to incorporate these techniques into your own life.

Key insights in Inventology

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What do you get from this book? Simple but powerful processes for generating new inventions and improving old ones
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Inventors can come from any walk of life, though creation should be distinguished from the business side of innovation
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Frustration might be annoying, but it can spark new ideas and inventions that solve specific problems
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“Martian Jet Lag” takes a broad and futuristic approach to problem solving, identifying global issues likely to affect millions
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The Wayne Gretzky Game focuses on “cool inventions” rather than problem solving, paving the way for working prototypes
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LSD and “TRIZ” rely on problem-solving methods to trigger ideas for future inventions
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When something unexpected happens, discovery can result in a new invention from an unlikely source
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Cross-pollinators and Go-Betweens help connect different fields of study, making an invention more likely to succeed
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InnoCentive and Kickstarter are excellent online sources for gathering information to grow imagination and build inventions
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By empowering people with knowledge and imagination, you give them the ability to overcome hardships
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Inequality creates an uneven future, so we have to work together and use our imagination to solve global issues
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Who should read Inventology

Inventors • teachers • students • scientists • entrepreneurs • anyone interested in creativity and invention

About the author of Inventology

Pagan Kennedy is a former columnist for New York Times Magazine and was a frequent contributor to Boston Globe. She is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction writing and was a 2010 Knight Science Journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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