" . . .there is probably nothing new under the Sun" You're right....more than you know.
Over the years, no less than dozens of what I thought were my ideas have been imagined independently and "run with" by others. I invented a set of eight cubes that had magnets on each face of the cubes. The cubes challenged one to arrange them into a bigger cube if one was able to get the south poles to be abetting north poles. The schema for magnet placement was the key concept of the invention, and it was a very fun puzzle kinetically to mess with. Well, I worked up a prototype and showed it around but everyone (and we're talking ALL the major toy companies) thought it was way too expensive to make. Yet, the next year, BLAMMO, there 'twas....right there in the Jacob Javitz convention hall -- done by a mom and popper who'd somehow solved the cost problem and gotten the set into a blister card for about $10 retail -- nice! It's humbling. When I would go to Toy Fair, there would be 1800 mom and pops with their one idea each -- most of them doomed to fail for lack of business skills, but, yep, there would ALWAYS be someone who was hot on one of my concepts and had gotten it to market -- usually in a far better format than I had gotten around to working up. If you really put out to get something on a shelf, you do a lot more thinking about the idea, and naturally, the concept evolves and different ways to package, market, advertise, price, name the product come to the fore -- whereas, for me, the idea might merely be on a list somewhere waiting for me to get passionate enough about it to flesh it out.....meanwhile the movement belongs to those who move. The point to underline is that my ideas came to me from out of left field -- I wasn't improving on or fleshing out other ideas I'd come across at Toy Fair. I thought of myself as a pure inventor with no significant impact from the environment, but hey, it sure seems fishy that so many folks get the same ideas at the same time. Ask Alexander Graham Bell or Isaac Newton or Edison -- all of them had huge problems "owning concepts" that others were working on too. My inventing was more of a calling than a career. I'd get an idea and just have to work it up with duct tape and cardboard to see if it worked. Then, if it did, yep, I'd get visions of grandeur counting my chickens before they'd hatched. Then I'd hit the bricks of the real world and find out how unspecial I really was....even though I had some very original ideas. The truth is that the toy industry is one tough nut to crack, and the invention itself is but the smallest part of success -- business skills are way more important. A very simple toy can cost half a million bucks to get even a small inventory into a warehouse. But, you know me; I'm such a whiny crabbing pity-me victimized mental-case who thinks he's special that, yeah, it pissed me off that others did what I had give up on or had set aside for some nonce. It was my idea, ya see? But, finally, I got over it and realized that if I don't immediately take an idea to fruition, it never really was my idea. If there is a God, hHe sows ideas in many minds like seeds cast widely upon a field. Not all grow. Oy! Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > > For every person that has some new idea about 1000 others on the planet > have the same idea about the same time. Of those 1000 about 100 will > actually get around to doing something about the idea. Of those maybe > 10 will actually get something near completion. Of those 3 will > actually complete it. Of those 1 will actually be successful with the > product. IOW, there is probably nothing new under the Sun, just > implementing it and getting it out at the right time. > > I guess this hearkens back to probably something MMY said in his > teachings that ideas are really just sitting their in the transcendent > and we tune into them and make them manifest. This is why I think > copyrights are WAY overvalued and have WAY too long a lifetime. Those > rules were made by the ignorant. > > Duveyoung wrote: > > Vaj, > > > > I doubt my game play is that to which you're referring, but can you > > give me any particulars of this video game of which you've written? > > > > My game is played 24/7 by any number of players. You never know when > > your turn will come, you never know when any other players' turns > > might come, but all players know what they'll have to do when the > > challenge "whacks ya sudden like." No player ever sees another player > > playing the game......unless...... > > > > My game requires a sacred intent, a magical and whimsical creativity, > > and STEALTH! > > > > And the game NEVER ENDS. > > > > Edg > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > >> On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Duveyoung wrote: > >> > >> > >>> 5. A game that makes doing samyama fun. > >>> > >> Already been made by meditation researchers and being used in some > >> schools. It's a video game that trains attentional skills. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > >
