I find that Tony Fadell is someone that is serious and very confident as he tries to make eye contact with all of his audience when he talks.
He talked not just about good ideas but also the problem good ideas bring. He used the peeling of stickers off fruits as an example. Good idea being the convenience of stickers on fruits on purchase and problem being the eagerness to taste the fruit, but we have to peel away the sticker before we can enjoy it. His conclusion is that everyone just got used to that trouble and he came up with this term "Habituation"
He thinks habituation is something that stops our creativity from surfacing and we should fight it. To fight it, we have to see the world the way it is. Not the way we think it is, as it is easy to solve a problem that everyone sees but it is hard to solve a problem that no-one sees.
To see the world the way it is, we should look broader, look closer and think younger so that we could stay beginners.
Ultimately I think it is as beginners where we first try to voice out our most out of this world ideas, it gets rejected. Truth is, sometimes, it is just not the right answer at that time but it doesn't mean that very same idea couldn't be the perfect solution to future problems.
On the contrary of all that I have agreed with Tony Fadell, I think I'm more similar to Isaac Mizrahi.
Similar to him, I know not where my inspiration comes from, I try to be organised but my best ideas comes when and where I least expected it. I go with the flow of events, which somehow always lands me in sessions of burning the midnight oil, completing my assignments.
Secondly, similar to Isaac Mizrahi, I'm always slightly bored at everything, I was never fully satisfied with my works and I believe that "The best is always the next." which people questioned, "then when will you attain it?"
To me, life is just that short, we are constantly learning and improving as we age, so how can we say that we will never produce anything better than the current?
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