‘The key to getting into the right mindset is to stack your moments of certainty. Write down three or four times you got a “yes.” It could be when you got hired, when you got a second date or when you won an award. Stack these up in your mind and remember how great you felt, and then put that in your head versus fearful thoughts. Try to see the outcome you want to happen before you even start.’
Watching a New York City trolley driver struggle to see past sleety windows leads to Mary Anderson’s invention of the “Window Cleaning Device,” United States Patent Number 743,801. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
“In a visit to New York City in the winter of 1902, Anderson sat in a trolley car on a frosty day. Anderson observed that the trolley car driver struggled to see past the windows because of the falling sleet. The trolley car’s front window was designed for bad-weather visibility, but its multi-pane windshield system worked very poorly. Therefore, to clear the sights, the driver needed to open the window, lean out of the vehicle, or stop the car to go outside in order to wipe the windscreen with his hands. Anderson, who was not an engineer but an entrepreneur, identified the problem and its opportunity. She envisioned a windshield wiper blade that the trolley driver could operate from the inside. At that time, it rarely occurred to anyone else to eliminate the problem. It was something drivers simply accepted and dealt with.
“When she returned to Alabama she hired a designer for a hand-operated device to keep a windshield clear and had a local company produce a working model. She applied for, and in 1903 was granted, a 17-year patent for a windshield wiper. The patent application was filed on June 18, 1903. On November 10, 1903, the United States Patent Office awarded Anderson patent number 743,801 for her Window Cleaning device.”
How To Identify Opportunities That Lay Hidden In Plain Sight: Kareem Hassan Explains
“Luck favors the prepared. For the hard-working, success is but the next ample opportunity! Opportunity knocks at all of our doors, but we need to be present and see the opportunity as it wanders along. It takes a sharp eye to recognize opportunities hidden in plain sight, as Kareem Hassan has.”
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