Hey guys! Welcome back. I’m about half way through a project called “Cray Cray Yay Yay” right, now I’ve decided that the learning I’ve been doing so far can’t just be sitting around without an audience. Here’s a little sneak peak of the learning I’ve been doing so far.
“Why does it take a Crazy Person to change the world?”
Last week we took a trip to Seattle to answer that question. We went to the Museum of Pop Culture, The Chihuly Art Museum, an amazon Climate Pledge arena Tour, a tour of Boeing, and much much more! Now that we’re back, I wrote an essay in order to attempt at answering the driving question:
It Takes Solutions That Don’t Exist in Order to Change the World
By Daniel Boglari
If someone from the nineteenth century were to travel one-hundred years forward in time, they would find a world that is completely unrecognizable to the one before it. But how can the world change so much in such little time? It is simply because there are people who change it. But they are not just regular people. The people who make changes to the world are the people who are willing to fix things that aren’t broken. They see problems that don’t exist, and they understand the value of their solutions to the point that nothing else could possibly mean more to them.
Most things in our world follow a set of rules, and music does not stray far from that narrative, but when Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl started the band Nirvana, they did not consider what anyone else wanted to hear. They knew that the music that made them happy existed, it just didn’t exist to most people in the world. Instead of taking the logical approach, being to adapt your product to the needs of your audience, Nirvana stayed the exact same, only making changes with the goal of bringing there music closer to what they want it to sound like. Nirvana achieved all its success without sacrificing any part of themselves. When it came time for their music to shine, it shone with no taint. It belonged to them with no conditions. Nirvana saw music that didn’t yet in the rest of the world’s heads, and they knew that changing what they knew the world needed in any way would ruin it. So they playing their music until the world heard it, and when the world did, it begged for more.
Nirvana’s impact on the world may be unclear to most people, so why don’t we look a name that’s a bit more global. Just like Nirvana, Microsoft was founded because Bill Gates and Paul Allen had a different perspective on an already existing concept. Computers were a niche tool that weren’t easy to use, but Microsoft was founded on the idea that they could become a staple in everyday life. How? Simply because they saw the power that they had, while the rest of the world did not. The founders at Microsoft put their everything into bringing the power of computers to the rest of the world because they knew that they were part of the few people who saw the technology as more than just a concept. They did this by making computers more efficient, and comfortable to use. They gave the world easier ways to interact with them, ultimately making them more popular. Computers being widespread made them more accessible, which allowed the technology that had existed from the very beginning to make itself apparent.
Microsoft brought us computers that are undeniably staples in our every day lives, but what about an invention that’s a little more spacious? The idea of flight started of as a dream that seemed almost unobtainable, but when it was finally solved by the wright brothers, it wasn’t just the idea of flight itself that changed the world, but the people who saw its potential. Flight was an incredibly powerful tool that wasn’t yet understood beyond it being a human fascination. It came down to people who saw the problems it could solve, which were problems that did not yet exist. People like Bill Boeing made the power of flight understandable to the world by forcing them to experience it first hand, by making flight so comfortable and efficient that the world could not say no to its arrival. Once the world understood what flight had to offer, the problems started to solve themselves, and the world became unrecognizable to before this had all started.
After understanding that its takes a certain way of looking at ideas in order change the world, I have three major takeaways that I feel have effected the way I think. My first takeaway is that no matter how weird an idea is, no matter how impossible, or far fetched, it might one day be possible. Considering and thinking about those kind of ideas is the best way to train my brain to think the way successful people do. My second takeaway is that the best way to be happy with myself is to not compromise the things that make me me. Even if my ideas flop, and even if I don’t succeed, I’ll still be happy with the fact that I tried my best, and that I’m still myself at the end of the day. Cause you never know, maybe “myself” is what the world needs. Finally, I’ve gained an appreciation for the things in my life that did not exist a hundred years ago. I’ve spent most of my time taking my life for granted, and learning about what actually caused the changes that make my life the way it is has inspired me to think about how my actions and the mindset I have has the power to change the world. Understanding that it takes people who try and solve problems that don’t exist to change the world has influenced the way I look at niche ideas, and I hope that practising that mindset will allow me to succeed just like the so called “crazy ones” did.
Stay tuned for more learning updates, and I’ll see you at the end of the project.
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