{"id":2567,"date":"2003-01-22T23:27:53","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T07:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2009-11-08T23:28:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T07:28:28","slug":"invention-isnt-magic-its-mess-and-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/invention-isnt-magic-its-mess-and-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Invention isn&#8217;t magic: it&#8217;s mess and mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated inventor Dean Kamen (best known recently for his creation of the Segway Human Transporter, a personal transportation gyroscopic scooter) says there\u2019s no magic in invention, just mess: \u201cIt\u2019s not some fundamental magic. The invention process is incredibly messy. It\u2019s incredibly frustrating. You go around, bump into the wall, try another place, bump into another wall, do a little more, bump into the same wall again, and say, \u2018Geez, I\u2019ve been here before. What\u2019s wrong?\u2019 &#8230; We learn to deal with failure, and deal with frustration. I have been, for most of my life, walking around the world and kissing frogs. Most of the time, when you kiss a frog, you get a wart; every once in a while, it turns into a prince or a princess.\u201d So you need to kiss a lot of frogs. Sounds pretty simple. Try it. (ABC News 4 Jan 2003)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shorl.com\/dofopybrydoste\">http:\/\/shorl.com\/dofopybrydoste<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated inventor Dean Kamen (best known recently for his creation of the Segway Human Transporter, a personal transportation gyroscopic scooter) says there\u2019s no magic in invention, just mess: \u201cIt\u2019s not some fundamental magic. The invention process is incredibly messy. It\u2019s incredibly frustrating. You go around, bump into the wall, try another place, bump into another&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[370,726,137],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-business","tag-invention","tag-process"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}