[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Persistence]] - People: [[Evan Monsma]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbOnRgiydCw&t=11s --- ## Summary - [[No plan survives first contact with the enemy]]. - [[Adaption is the key to successful integration]]. - [[Don't be precious with your materials - especially your scraps]]. - [[Find your space, then fill it]]. - [[Start getting lazy, that's when you hurt yourself]]. - [[Creativity lives in both calmness and chaos]]. ## Notes ### Doesn't go to plan - "Every time I move, inevitably, something doesn't go to plan". [[No plan survives first contact with the enemy]]. - It's about [[Make things work despite circumstances]]. - Modular design helps with integration to new environments and circumstances and environments. But it is never guaranteed. [[Adaption is the key to successful integration]]. - Sometimes, the most PRACTICAL SOLUTION is to remove things rather than to modify them. ### Construction - Become proficient in working with materials and tools as such that you can make anything out of anything - to [[Bricolage all things]]. - Collect materials. Use materials. [[Don't be precious with your materials - especially your scraps]]. - "I rushed to build a shelf right away, to claim this space as mine". [[Find your space, then fill it]]. [[Face the friction]] and begin anew. - You may not be proud of the build. But you can be proud of making something out of nothing. ### Chaos and calm - [[Start getting lazy, that's when you hurt yourself]]. - [[Chaos often finds chaotic minds]]. - Find your calmness in the things, the space, and the people that provide you with comfort. [[Creativity lives in both calmness and chaos]]. - "If you put me in a perfectly organized clean workshop with every tool I could ever dream of... I'd probably be a lot less inspired." - "[[It's the stories, the mistakes, the experimentation, the learnings that only you can really do for yourself that make a space special]]." ## See also - [[My enjoyment in making things, my creativity, has never once changed based on the stuff that I've owned.]]