The Benefits of Color blindness

Color blindness, a color vision deficiency in animals, is the inability to perceive differences between some of the colors that others can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to certain chemicals.

Color blindness is usually classed as disability; however, in selected situations color blind people have an advantage over people with normal color vision. There are some studies which conclude that color blind individuals are better at penetrating certain camouflages.

WWII teams that analyzed aerial photographs were looking for unusual patterns, so a color blind person could prove useful. From an evolutionary perspective a hunting group will be more effective if it includes a color blind hunter (one in twenty) who can spot prey that others cannot.

Excerpts From Color blindness - Wikipedia

I discovered I was color blind early on. It wasn't hard to think of this condition as a disability. Art was a difficult class, and my hopes of becoming a doctor were not likely when during biology I could not really discern some of the key points the teacher was trying to highlight.

Over the years though I have found my affliction to have more benefits than deficits. Not just in the ways identified through technical studies, but in many less obvious ways:

• An appreciation for the subtler shades
• Uncolored perception
• Recognition that what what I see may not be the same as everyone-else
• Discovery of facets of humanity that were more important than color

So you see, if you are trying to innovate, solve problems bigger than your current thinking, you may need some color blindness. Don't always focus on the most obvious colors, but look at the subtler shades, and embrace diversity of thought!