Manifesto for a Maker - The inventor inside of all of us.
Basics 101 -
1. You have to believe in yourself …..if you don't, why would anyone else?
2. You have to try. You will never know unless you try. If you try and you fail, at least you know you tried. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And, it beats the endless, what if I had???what if I had????
You succeed, that's great, you gain confidence to try even harder, because success breeds success.
You fail, and then you know, it was't meant to be. Or, you are motivated to try even harder the next time. It's never a mistake to try, some of the best inventions were created by mistake. It's true, check out John Hopps or Percy Spencer - 2 of the creators talked about in the Business Insider article "15 Life-Changing Inventions That Were Created By Mistake."
3. You have to follow your instinct. Listen to yourself. When it's telling you stop and you don't want to you should stop and follow your gut or if your instincts are telling you to go on, and your self doubt gets the best of you, you don't know where your drive is leading, but you owe it to yourself and all of us to go for it. You may have the key to the next big thing or the cure to a fatal illness, like ALS. One Facebook post about wanting to raise awareness of ALS, has lead to millions of dollars being raised for research for a cure.
4. You don't have to be a perfectionist - we don't live in a perfect world. But people will keep making new things until we get there!
Below is a like that I thought was pretty cool, about somethings that were accidentally invented.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2012/1005/The-20-most-fascinating-accidental-inventions/Potato-chips
Basics 101 -
1. You have to believe in yourself …..if you don't, why would anyone else?
2. You have to try. You will never know unless you try. If you try and you fail, at least you know you tried. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And, it beats the endless, what if I had???what if I had????
You succeed, that's great, you gain confidence to try even harder, because success breeds success.
You fail, and then you know, it was't meant to be. Or, you are motivated to try even harder the next time. It's never a mistake to try, some of the best inventions were created by mistake. It's true, check out John Hopps or Percy Spencer - 2 of the creators talked about in the Business Insider article "15 Life-Changing Inventions That Were Created By Mistake."
3. You have to follow your instinct. Listen to yourself. When it's telling you stop and you don't want to you should stop and follow your gut or if your instincts are telling you to go on, and your self doubt gets the best of you, you don't know where your drive is leading, but you owe it to yourself and all of us to go for it. You may have the key to the next big thing or the cure to a fatal illness, like ALS. One Facebook post about wanting to raise awareness of ALS, has lead to millions of dollars being raised for research for a cure.
4. You don't have to be a perfectionist - we don't live in a perfect world. But people will keep making new things until we get there!
Below is a like that I thought was pretty cool, about somethings that were accidentally invented.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2012/1005/The-20-most-fascinating-accidental-inventions/Potato-chips
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