Adam Savage, maker god and former host of Mythbusters is on a big media tour to promote his first book launch, Ever Tool’s a Hammer. He had a great interview with Tim Ferriss and now he’s on the road. I was fortunate to see him at a live event in NY.
I was just a kid when Mythbusters launched. It was at a strange time in Discovery Channel’s history, when they were transitioning away from science content and into reality TV. Mythbusters seemed to be a happy marriage of the two, where science, art and dynamic personalities found a creative new home.
Adam is an excellent speaker and gifted storyteller. He shines in long-from conversations. Here were a few of my takeaways from the event:
Show your creations proudly, even if they’re flawed. “Perfect is the enemy of done.”
–Set artificial deadlines, don’t be afraid to show flawed creations. It’s part of what makes us unique, and consistently exposing flawed creation will help you find your voice and your courage to create.
–Making: telling a story through the filter of you. With enough creation and iteration, even things you copy take on a new form. Every persons experience is unique, and no two people see the world exactly the same way. By creating, we’re inevitably applying these fortunaye biases’ into our work.
–Buying from makers is buying a story and a unique value.
-The power of creation is a democratizing force.
–Failure has become an overvalued misnomer. What we call failure is iteration.
-Show the iterations and the messy process under the hood. Part of Mythbusters’ success was in showing the messy work that they put into the stories.
-The best teachers share frames. Great teachers will give the gift of a new perspective, an alternative viewpoint to a problem.
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