If you believe the glass is half full or even better, than the movie’s title and subject matter is something you will like. In the movie, Flash of Genius staring Greg Kinnear, Universal Pictures, 2009. the character has a Flash of Genius on inventing something which is standard on all cars – the position between stop and go for windshield wipers. The rest of the movie is about actually getting paid for the invention. It is the Flash of Genius which Is the important part. We are all good at something and the more we do it, the better we become – the 10,000 hours to master a skill theme. After we have mastered something, you will search for a method to do it better which was either not done before or is something new. Technology helps breaks some of those barriers, but  trying is the journey you are on. Whether that flash of genius happens with the apple and Newton understanding the laws of gravity or whether that happens when you do a non related activity you will find the missing connection or the missing piece of the puzzle to move along your idea.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, investing means you do not have to be a genius. If the idea is to try to lose less money over the long term, then buying shares in profitable companies which pay you a dividend is easily seen as a good thing to do. Sometimes the best ideas are simple ones, not the genius ones but the ones that solve the problem. When you are investing think simple. What you will be amazed at is how often for the amount of risk you take, the simple ideas have the better returns.

There are more questions than answers, till the next time – to raising questions