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My Dad is an Inventor
- Kathryn
- Mar 13, 2016
- 2 min read
Hello and welcome to this, the first post of our Dad and Daughter blog. This is Kathryn here, the daughter (obviously). I wanted to kick off with an introduction.
Dad and I want to talk about innovative stuff, things that excite us. Developments in tech, challenging ideas, anything we think is breaking new territory. This blog is the platform on which we're going to do it. Have a quick gander of the 'About Us' page for more context.
But before anything else the label I have given Dad needs qualifying. Why is he an inventor? How did I categorise it?
It's not quite the image you have in your head - he doesn't work in a laboratory. He isn't a scientist. He hasn't made a ground breaking discovery.
But he is incredibly inventive. All the time. Let's take a step back for a moment and I'll explain.
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I first became conscious of how much Dad influenced me when I was doing my first set of 'real' exams in school, my GCSEs. When I got my results and 'did alright' that was the first time I remember being very personally proud of what I had achieved. However I realised that it wasn't all to do with the grades, it was because, for the first time I can clearly remember, Dad was openly proud of me. He wanted to share my success.
It's fairly normal to crave respect from a parent, but this was another level. Dad isn't impressed easily.
On top of that I realised I especially craved respect from Dad, because I respected him. Hugely. More than I realised.
Still, respecting a parent is also fairly universal. Why did it mean quite so much?
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I know now that Dad and I have one major quality in common. We are very curious, and it constantly pushes us. What we do is never quite enough. We have a drive to succeed, and we only feel fulfiled when we know we've put in 100% (or more).
I look at Dad and I see him asking 'What's next?' everyday. Constantly pushing boundaries. Always with his eyes open, looking for inspiration. That's what I aspired to when I opened my exam results - I wanted to know that even with those standards, and even though achieving good exam results is only the tiniest hurdle to jump - he felt at least fleetingly proud of me, for those grades, at that moment.
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So to revisit the initial question, why can he be classified as an inventor?
The dictionary definition of 'invention' is wide - it covers imagination, creativity and inspiration, as well as the literal invention of a product or idea.
Dad has all of these things to excess.
As his daughter, that in itself is pretty inspiring.
We wanted to channel that curious energy, to share what excites us. And so this blog was born.
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