Bringing Inventive Ideas to Fruition With “The Inventress”

No, you know, I think it's in your DNA.

I think when you have the drive that you have, And you can't help but do it.

I believe it's in your DNA.

I could not not do this.

I was a little kid when I was reinventing, redesigning products and things that were not probably products, clothing and shoes and sneakers and everything.

Just items that weren't working for me the way I wanted them to work.

I redesigned them, not even realizing I was inventing anything.

I didn't think I said, oh, this is an invention.

I didn't think anything like that.

It was just a constant redesign.

You know, my sneakers weren't staying tied when I played handball.

I loved playing handball as a little kid.

My sneakers didn't stay tied.

So I created something as a little kid.

So my shoelaces stayed together.

And I didn't say, aha, I must be an inventor.

I didn't do that.

You know, it's very much like a person who's a dress designer.

You know, you hear many young people who are designers, little girls designing dresses and just becoming that as grownups, right? But those people I believe are, passionate enough and blessed enough and faithful enough to stay the course and keep on doing it without stopping.

You

know what I mean? Everybody doesn't have that.

I, many people are blessed with, um, a gift of whatever the thing is, photography, inventing, building architecture, um, and don't necessarily do it.

And they still have that passion and that drive, but they, for whatever reason, they probably have to get, you know, do a regular job.

Don't do a regular nine to five.

I'm thinking about the little girl with a shoelace thing.

No, you know, I think it's in your DNA.

I think when you have the drive that you have, And you can't help but do it.

I believe it's in your DNA.

I could not not do this.

I was a little kid when I was reinventing, redesigning products and things that were not probably products, clothing and shoes and sneakers and everything.

Just items that weren't working for me the way I wanted them to work.

I redesigned them, not even realizing I was inventing anything.

I didn't think I said, oh, this is an invention.

I didn't think anything like that.

It was just a constant redesign.

You know, my sneakers weren't staying tied when I played handball.

I loved playing handball as a little kid.

My sneakers didn't stay tied.

So I created something as a little kid.

So my shoelaces stayed together.

And I didn't say, aha, I must be an inventor.

I didn't do that.

You know, it's very much like a person who's a dress designer.

You know, you hear many young people who are designers, little girls designing dresses and just becoming that as grownups, right? But those people I believe are, passionate enough and blessed enough and faithful enough to stay the course and keep on doing it without stopping.

You

know what I mean? Everybody doesn't have that.

I, many people are blessed with, um, a gift of whatever the thing is, photography, inventing, building architecture, um, and don't necessarily do it.

And they still have that passion and that drive, but they, for whatever reason, they probably have to get, you know, do a regular job.

Don't do a regular nine to five.

I'm thinking about the little girl with a shoelace thing.