The word ingenuity comes from the Latin "ingenium" which means "something that moves by itself". However, the meaning with which we usually use the word ingenuity is to describe or indicate the ability or faculty that a person may have to create or invent something new.
Subjects who have the characteristic of being resourceful can with great ease and dexterity come up with ideas or new ideas about different situations, they usually solve dilemmas or difficult problems and they do it quickly, easily and in turn as efficiently as possible, also mostly they become great inventors of different machinery or technological devices.
Ingenuity is a skill that can be put into practice from the imagination, as it is an area in which our creative aspect comes to the fore to be able to inspect different things or situations of our day to day life. For ingenious people, the fact of responding in a daring and particular way (unique, their own, invented by him), towards the different circumstances that arise in life, is their main characteristic, being for themselves a rewarding achievement, since always They look for various methods towards solving the problems they may face.
Without a doubt, all the things that are managed to create or solve from the ingenuity of an individual are useful, both for the ingenious and for the rest of the interested people, since they come to arise from creativity, intelligence and ability., together with all the previous knowledge on the subject and the means or instruments that it has.
In general terms, ingenious people are distinguished by having among their main characteristics: self-confidence, enthusiasm, creative and inventive imagination, intuition, will, perception, concerns, among others, but above all freedom, because freedom assumes a very important role in the creative mind of an individual, since you cannot have a broad development of what you want to achieve if you do not feel free to imagine and do it, in other words you must feel free to experiment and exploit your ingenuity in order to reach its maximum expression.