To invent something new you got to forget the existing invention in that area for some time and move back into the world when the invention never existed..
After my highschool I joined a nearby town garage for exposure in mechanics but specified on the wiring systems. In the one year and two months I was there revolution happened in motor vehicles my mind was young, growing and focused to learn anything and about everything.
The carburetors were evolving to EFI systems . it wasn't something small it was blow to the mechanics, new and old customers with new models which no mechanic ever learnt about. It required us to go back to class and learn more and more about the new system.
This day is different in this new world, long since the last time I saw a carburetor vehicle apart from at home Datsun double Axel pick up at home.
I'm in college headed to class. there's this vehicle I saw Datsun l200 an old vehicle driven by a young college lady. she drives across the compound to its normal parking. behind her another old as gold vehicle with marks of age, moving slowly, overtaken by time.
surprisingly in this institution nobody cares to watch the old lagged vehicles as they move across the college compound to its parking. I remembered the Peugeot 504 at home raised with huge stones for support at home.
I can promise you if you happen to be in that vehicle today everybody will be asking, what kind of a vehicle is this? old fashioned,
good thing is its the students driving it. they were not limited by what students might say, not ashamed. in fact nobody cared. my dad's old Peugeot 504 looked new and better that this old vehicles. I got the idea to repair it back and make it my ride too.
at times you got to move from that new invention and move back a distance further as if it never happened. feel the environment back then, think how it happened get into the mind of people who lived then compare the current, get into the nerves of the inventors, see what they saw in the state they were.
what did the inventors think when they thought of EFI?. you cannot invent something new if you still want to enjoy the comfort of the current invention. get into the mind of those inventors go back 100years ago see and learn the basics and understand the steps of invention, learn.
but, how many are willing to learn? get out of their comfort zone, will we be limited by what people say, if we get out of our comfort zone its not comfortable. nobody wants to accompany you out of your comfort zone. your friends don't even want to see you. nobody wants isolation..me too.
this institution is different nobody bothers, cares or stares at you, am amazed by this two students not ashamed of their rides. I can assure you they having a great understanding and are our next big inventors..
some of us have never tried the old ride they don't understand the change they don't understand what have happened between the old and new model,
its better an old ride than walk to school.
it good to step out and feel how it felt when the invention was not there. its good to seat out, its the only way you will understand how it happened and be in a position to learn the next 10+ years. having the taste of the old and the new will help you and make the inventions easy to understand. are you willing to have a taste? I believe you can also have a feel of a hundred years to come.
get out of your comfort zone in your area and invent something new.
Sometimes turn off your phone, experience the years there were no communications, think about current and future communications, learn the basics..
Take a walk feel the past years when there were no cars,
Turn off your T.V get to that 50 years environment, you will learn a lot. whether its doing harm or good to you. and the best way to utilize it.
God bless.
©Sam Mwangi.
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