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The
biggest secret about inventing is that anybody can do it! Perhaps this sounds crazy,
but it's true. Maybe you have the wrong idea about inventing, so read on to discover
the truth.
Wrong
idea No. 1: An invention has to be something completely new.
Inventing
means creating something "new", but the idea could come from something
that already exists(存在). The
Wright brothers, for example, got the idea for building a "flying machine"
from watching birds.
Wrong
idea No. 2: Inventors are born, not made.
There
are a lot of factors(因素) that
make invention possible. Take Mazart, for example. He was born with a talent
for musical composition. But other factors were also important for his creativity.
His father was a music teacher, and Mozart practiced for hours every day, from the
time he was four years old. Thomas Edison said that being an inventor was "99%
hard work and 1% inspiration"!
Very
successful creators don't give up when they get something wrong. As one inventor
said, "A failure is the right answer to the wrong question."
Wrong
idea No. 3: Inventors are always old people.
Don't
believe that you can't invent something when you are young. Here are two examples
of young inventors: Louis Braille went blind when he was a child. When he was fifteen,
he invented a system of reading and writing for blind people that is still used
in most countries today.
As
a young man, George Nissen was watching some artists performing in a show. He watched
how they fell into the safety net and then jumped back up again. This gave him an
idea, and he invented the trampoline(蹦床).
