aim not to be clever. but to be dogged. to be determined.
a clever person doesn’t spend 14 years building 5127 prototypes of the world’s first cyclonic vacuum cleaner.
a determined person does.
determination over the long term is the foundation that progress and innovation are built upon.
there is no such thing as a quantum leap.
there is only dogged persistence.
and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.
the edisonian way of product development is the iterative way
it is the progress by stages
it is that persistent trial and error that allows you to wake up one morning
after many many mornings
with a world beating product.
when an idea comes
don’t sit down and process it through pages of calculation
don’t argue it with anyone
just try to build it
the root principle is to do things your way
it doesn’t matter how others did it
it doesn’t matter if it can be done better
as long as it works and it’s exciting
people will follow you.