Sometimes good ideas grow out of frustration.When Fred Smith was a student at Yale University , he had some paperwork that he needed to have delivered across the country the next day.Smith was amazed to find out that overnight delivery was impossible .He sat for a long while wondering why .Why couldn't there be a reliable overnight mail delivery service?He decided to design one.Smith did just that and turned his design into a class project .His business profesor gave him only a C for his efforts.However ,Smith was not throught .He refined the ideas in that class project and eventually turned them into one of the first and most successful overnight mail services in the world -FedEX
We know today ,of course ,that each of these ideas led to an incredibly successful product or service that has changed the way many of us live .The best questions are usually openended and are often silly.Children aren't afraid to ask such questions ,but adults frequently are.Think how different the world might be if people never asked "silly" questions!
