I really find how you all invent in the physical world to be incredibly fascinating. My particular faculty is of more of the verbal/argumentative variety - I guess that's why we're both the inventor and lawyer type... ha!
+1. I'm also quite, what's the word, ah....lazy.
Pretty much all things in life has to meet and exceed the 'effort initiative' point, in order for me to undertake. If I can find the easiest way to get something done, without any actual effort from me, that's the way it shall be done. I won't go out of my way to create something that I know is already readily available and easily accessible. I wish I could change this about myself though....it sounds like fun.
I get to the point of a 'task' by 'randomly' reaching that point, then, scanning my environment to see how best to connect whatever is available at that moment, to get that task completed, with one goal, minimizing effort (excluding mental effort) from my end.
There's rarely ever a pre-meditated goal with a plan.
So, any 'inventive thought' then becomes something of an 'in-the-moment' phenomenon.
E.g., I'm hungry. I don't have enough $ to get delivery and am too lazy to go get food or go to the ATM five minutes walking distance away. As I comtemplate my hunger, while having a smoke outside and think, DAMN, if only I had $5 more dollars, I could totally do delivery from X place, I see the neighbours across the street having a garage sale, and a person inquiring that they were scouting for furniture to furnish a room they're putting up for rent.
There's this wonky lamp and a full-length mirror, that I have, and never use, and, given that I'll be leaving this place in a few months, and the headache of all the stuff to move/carry, or drop off at the Charity Store......it, was like, boom, boom, boom. Cost/benefit.
I went over, spoke to the neighbous if they'd allow me to sell some stuff of mine, went upstairs, got my lamp and mirror, added it to THEIR garage sale, sold it within 2 minutes, to that inquiring customer, with $10 in my pocket. And, lunch resolved. With a fiver to spare.