Making technical inventions as a part of a team

 My step mother like mom Tita was very fond of mathematics and school studies. She seemed to figure out lits of new ideas for solutions kn mathematics by using drawn picture like of word associations in daily life as a source of new ideas, instead of working work like in math seemingly no more than a minute or two, except maybe liking reading some text about mathematical things for maybe 5-30 min with pauses in between fetching cooked tea enthusiastically bustling around or fetching a better pen and the like. 

Now as I think of years back, she seemed also good at figuring out ideas for new technological inventions. She was fond of a school like or academucal wsy of thinking and of a skill level or clmpany of maybe 10-12 years old boys, so she just figured out inventions with such a basic perspective and the drawn picture like basic associatilns of how things could be. She also thought that way of the inventions of others, learning from them problem solving skills, even though I did not get the geasp of such, since I felt bigger wholes and wisdom of lufe much needed. 

For example of the computer mouse, she said that a ball could be moved this way and that way, if one only coukd see how it mives, so maybe one coukd draw a grid or uneven figures on it, if some optical machine coukd together with a computer notice from those how the ball moves, and so one could place the ball inside such a box if it is small enough, and maybe have the figures on the ball's surface on some colour seen in special light. So she always supposed others filling the needed extra work with trade like high skills, and that was an essential orequisite for such an approach to work out. Likewise she thought of warm clothes as a punch of air pockets insulatins, and asked coukd one have thought of a blanket consisting of several layers insulating, and so have invented the warmest padded winter blankets - but that too only with the help of professionals in product development. 

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