Inventor Innovator
Being an Inventor Innovator means using the resources at hand to make novel connections and creations. You celebrate your own and others’ divergent thinking.
You invent a new solution to a problem
The world is full of constraints, and although our knee-jerk reaction to these limitations is often one of annoyance, the Inventor Innovator recognizes that constraints provide a narrow focus that can lead us to creative solutions, if we can quiet the “editing mind”.
Micro Challenge: The 20 Circles Challenge
Draw 20 circles in an array: 4 rows of 5. If you have a coin, you can trace it. In 3 minutes, turn each circle into something different. Go!
You connect unexpected things
The Inventor Innovator thinks by way of analogy and metaphor. They see how unrelated ideas can be connected through shared features, characteristics or functions.
Micro Challenge: Exquisite Corpse
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Your work is authentic and unique
In our digital world where social media permeates our lives, where everyone parrots one another, the Inventor Innovator stretches to come up with original ideas, and imbues their work with their own style.
Micro Challenge: Create a Logo for Yourself
Give yourself a brand! Consider what you makes you unique, and what you love about yourself. Now turn it into an image! This can be as simple as starting with stylizing your initials, and as far-out as your imagination will take you!