- Bring new ideas into this world. They will set amazing things into motion — things you can’t comprehend.
- You will get hunches throughout life. If you see, hear, or feel something that isn’t there, make it real.
- All input (reading, movies, people, art, sports, etc.) is useful in cross-pollinating ideas. Embrace variety.
- Being able to express yourself is one of the greatest gifts in life.
- Express what is in your heart, regardless of the commercial feasibility of your ideas.
- Engage positively to inspire and fulfill lives (including yours).
- If you choose to commercialize creation, solve a problem and make the solution better than anyone imagined.
- Open the mechanisms of your expression — a new business, an invention, an empty wave, words, a home, dinner.
Your Dad’s Lesson:
For a long time, I put limitations on my creativity due to the perception that rampant ideas prevent follow-through. I would tell myself, “Stick with one thing and make it great.” However, as I continued to run a company I had built five years prior, I found myself more satisfied by fresh ideas and change than by a predictable margin. Was creativity being suppressed based on an observation that might not even be valid? I missed the stomachaches I used to get from the anticipation of possibility before entering my uncle’s woodshop. Further, I liked the challenge of solving problems and the unpredictability of doing something that hadn’t been done before. So I decided to let things flow, regardless of the implications, and I couldn’t be happier.
