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@magnuspitruzelli

Жыл бұрын

Mr. Savage, when it comes to people going into the specific fields of work or as the U.S. military service calls it "M.O.S./ Mission of Specialty" basically meaning something you love, and or passionate about doing. Sadly now most people in the last twenty years haven't gravitated towards what they love, but rather what they think will make them rich. For me I am hands on and I have done several hands on metalworking jobs and some other things. While working in the physical environment of metallurgy and loving it, this has never sustained me little own had me making money. But its its something that I love and keeps me sane.

I think "innate talent" is the word you're looking for. Most people never even have the opportunity to discover what their innate talent even is, much less be able to support themselves with it. Those who do are very lucky indeed.

@deadaccount6135

Жыл бұрын

Very well said! A large problem for many though is not having the right ' connections ' to get the ball rolling. We need a thing in society that is taught in schools and from very early childhood, something that ' everybody knows ', that can put individuals with the ' right people ' very early in life, to help them get started on ' unusual ' careers. That would allow them to explore and blossom without restraint, to help all humanity.

@zoinomiko

Жыл бұрын

@@deadaccount6135 easier discovery of unusual (or unexpectedly creative) careers - yes, totally agree our youth need this so much. As a young creative if I'd understood how much creative fulfilment I could find in marketing (not just graphic design) I think it could have been a very different life path. Fortunately things still turned out pretty good. ;)

@wadewayne8569

Жыл бұрын

Aptitude

@MichaelEilers

Жыл бұрын

This is garbage. “innate talent” sounds like the skill is unearned, or that people who are slow at learning a skill will never get there because it’s not somehow intrinsic to them.

@edbennett8257

Жыл бұрын

@@MichaelEilers No, garbage is the theory that anyone can do anything as well as anyone else as long as they want to bad enough. That is a self evidently false theory, although there are a few outliers to any trend that I'm sure you will want to put up as "proof". Everyone is different. Different body types, different intelligence level, different intelligence type, different sensory acuity, reflexes, strength, speed, and interests. This is a very good thing, as these differences spread out among our population make it possible for a wide variety of skill sets to be employed to mutual benefit, even if it's only for entertainment purposes in some cases. The differences make it easy for those with traits that match their occupations to excel at them, and hard for those whose traits do not match. The "skill" is not unlearned, but the innate traits that make maximizing that skill possible are.

Serial skill collector….what an interesting way to phrase that. I have an interview for a promotion this Tuesday and I think I’m going to use that as a way to describe myself. Thank you Mr. Savage

@zoinomiko

Жыл бұрын

The 'serial skills' I've creatively picked up have been vastly useful in reaching where I'm at today - partly of course from being able to figure out opportunities to apply them but also just in showing a willingness to learn and grow just for the passion of it. (Good luck with the interview!!)

@i4gotda0intment

Ай бұрын

Did you get the job?

Thank you for not editing out the bit between about 8:06 - 8:26. And for the spontaneity in general, really. 🙂

@joemaselli9873

Жыл бұрын

the comedic timing on that thing was impeccable...before it got unplugged

@CaydeSmax

Жыл бұрын

thats enough outta you ! :D adams gleefull smile after :D

@jettbrains

Жыл бұрын

+1 I was laughing out loud.

@ikemkrueger

10 ай бұрын

@@jettbrainsMe too. xD

“Serial Skill Collector” is the best job title EVER!

@theessentialguideforblokes7960

Жыл бұрын

A serial skiller?!

I worked aerospace machining programming for years. Took the skills home to make very interesting pieces on my home machines. Only when I had the time after I quit did I realize I could make the efforts profitable and could dictate my own time and actually rely on having the weekend off

@espalier

Жыл бұрын

Tight tolerances and complex shapes!

@BGraves

Жыл бұрын

@@espalier I use my CNC to make press fit finger joints in wood 😉 wood is much more interesting work

@espalier

Жыл бұрын

@@BGraves I'm a CNC set-up operator, I manufacture lotsa nozzles. at home I use the shapes trees grow in to make this'n'that. kooky shit.

You just helped me understand why i should work in what I've studied, thank you so much for teaching me what a career is.

I watch this, following many of your fantastic videos, whilst battling Covid. Your videos open my mind to our world of creativity and prove truly what our minds can open this world into. Thank you for these videos, Adam. Thank you for this video; I look forward to listening to you speak each and every video just to hear how your mind works and watch your imagination unravel. Thank you for helping me through Covid. -E: from small town South Dakota

Fantastic. Perhaps one of my favourite episodes. I discovered my passion when I was 5. I'm 53 now. I've had a career doing what gives me creative fulfilment for 33 years now. That same thing I discovered when I was 5 and was my hobby until I finished high school. I am one of the lucky ones. I never stop learning. I never stop sharing what I know.

I've found that I have to do a certain amount of programming on a regular basis or else I go crazy. Listening to Adam talk about creativity between statues and professional work is a similar feeling to how I have felt. When I started taking a job my interest in personal programming dropped, when I have a job without much programming then I feel the need to do things on my own time.

I recently had this parking lot epiphany this week actually! The search for a job to scratch that "itch." Truly does feel like winning the lottery! Before finding this, i was in a much worse state mentally and really struggled with the day to day. I did what adam did and found outlets that i could create in. Personally, since i didnt have room or the money, i did drafting and worked on wood with hand tools from an antique store lol. Oh and i widdled haha! After reading some of the comments, my biggest suggestion is to not give up on the search cause it may come from unlikely fields. Thought I wanted to work with med devices and I'm working in a paint factory solving all kinds or problems by making things/systems!

I find myself getting stuck for hours at a time on a project out of the sheer joy of just being there. It feels like two hours or three hours ends up being 10.

I wish I had a moment of discovery like that in my life, I have tremendous creative drive and inspiration for that type of career however fear always hindered me. It is amazing what emotion can do or hinder you from accomplishing in life. Adam you have always been an inspiration to me with your free ability to create, remain so humble and maintain that zest for some new challenge. I spent my 20’s chasing a party and “others” acceptance and hoping that elusive fulfilling career would find me. In an effort not end this in a down note. I am still chasing that elusive discovery moment and am enjoying your videos like this. Thank you.

@deadaccount6135

Жыл бұрын

I feel the same, only without parties to sustain me. I guess it comes down to not having the right connections, knowing the right people, to be able to kick off the chosen career. It's a shame society is set up this way, so many brilliant people could contribute to the betterment of humanity if access wasn't ' gatekeepered '.

@Soundwrecker

Жыл бұрын

@@deadaccount6135 nonsense. William spoke of self doubt and you're saying society is stacked against you. Being a MAKER is all about using whatever resources are available and failing often. If things don't turn out the way you want just keep at it; you'll improve.

@biblical_dreams

Жыл бұрын

You only live this life one time , it would be a shame to get to the end of that life with regrets, follow your dream , it will always lead to success if you don't give up

I've actually been having an issue lately with creativity, and it's my new job as a machinist that is to blame. It's seriously effecting my creativity as a Dungeon Master.

@nekokna

Жыл бұрын

Its sad that then jobs we do affect our minds as much :(

@juliettaylorswift

Жыл бұрын

would either be hilarious or horrible if all the sudden you do things like "henchman eddy enters the room with 3 thou to spare on the right and 8 thou on his left relative to the square doorway" (but better examples and everything describes exact even when a relative dimension would be fine)

@EvanCops

Жыл бұрын

itll come back. i lost alot of creativity at my old job, but im gaining it back the more i work on stuff.

@ehsanrahee7411

Жыл бұрын

@@EvanCops that's what I'm hoping for. Just trying to get over this hump. But it's several humps convening in my case (as in other factors), so a lot of burning out just to stay afloat. Creativity just happens to be the hardest hit in the original sense I wrote.

@EvanCops

Жыл бұрын

@@ehsanrahee7411 yeah I was chronically burned out at my old job and I lost all sense of creativity it was awful. But remember itll come back

There are so many things in this I would like to address and discuss, but I can't get into more than one, so I'll settle for: Adam, even if it's a false dichotomy, have you ever consider returning to a more "artist-like" approach to your creativity, if only to see what it's like? I'm really curious about how you feel about the idea of taking that approach and how that might feel for you at this stage of things. I'm a sort of lost, ungrounded artist, trying to figure out how to make it work as part of my life, and hearing about how you've approached your creativity throughout your life has a great deal of value for me.

I never really thought of it that way and I really appreciate hearing Adam say it like this!

I love what you said here. I am an Art Historian, and my students often Romantizes art and artists and somehow through makers and craftspeople under the bus, so to say, as unthinking cogs in a machine that just make without thought, creativity, or feeling. I also love that in your videos, you show just how much thought, creativity, and feeling go into your projects (and just how closely related those fields are)!

Hi Adam, as a carpenter and joiner I'm also a maker and my father was the best teacher I've ever had, even if I sometimes found his wisdom the most exasperating and challenging way of learning.

I've always described my first 'real' job as a computer programmer as being paid to play with computers for 8 hours a day. Over the years, I have found that I have a knack for making computer systems do what I want them to do. It has been a fun ride.

I've been in a bit of an identity crisis and your take on creative problem solving as an art form really hits home. Never thought of billiards as a way to scratch a creative itch, but it makes perfect sense in this context. I started school thinking I'd be a scientist, but struggled with the tedium of scientific research. Then I tried classes for engineering, but my brain didn't seem wired for complex physics and college level calculus. I'd been taking 3D art classes as a curiosity, then for a minor, but found myself signing up for more of them because I could solve problems with my hands as much as my mind. My class schedule gradually moved out of the science building and into the studio. I took ceramics, welding, woodworking, and volunteered at a glass art museum. I enjoyed every new assignment and challenge, and loved picking up new skills with each medium. After graduating with a BA in Fine Art, I figured that design was probably my next logical step. What is design but applied art? Unfortunately, grad school wasn't in the cards financially and my liberal arts/fine arts degree didn't open any doors for internships or mentorships in the Seattle design scene. Additionally, I was exhausting my pension for artistic expression. Without assignments or direction, my art wasn't solving problems, it was just bleeding my imagination dry. I was burned out and needed a shift. From high school through college, I'd worked summer jobs in the outdoor industry, bouncing around as a bike mechanic, climbing instructor, backpacking guide, etc. When I burned out on art, and design wasn't an option, I went back to what I knew and loved best. I moved to Denver and settled into a seasonal working calendar following my passion for the outdoors. My new path didn't pay well. For 4 years I was living on ramen and Coors light, sharing a house with 7 people, and didn't have the space or money to make art. I figured I'd get back to sculpture one day, but I enjoyed my new work and each job taught me something about my aptitudes. My bike shop jobs taught me how to use precision tools and fix complex assemblies. I acted as a handyman in a climbing gym, repairing what needed repairing between teaching classes and belaying for birthday parties. Additionally, my guiding and volunteer management with a trail-building non-profit taught me how to work with a variety of personalities in dynamic environments. I was learning all the skills I needed for my dream job without even realizing it. I was just filling the roles I was best at. Looking back on it, those roles were all about problem solving. I took it upon myself to learn the skills necessary to perform tasks I hadn't done before, bettering myself and the businesses that hired me. I wasn't making art, but I was learning and I figured I could make art when I had the time and the resources to do so. After all, I was only in my mid-20s. When an entry-level opportunity at an outdoor tech company popped up on craigslist, I threw myself at it. I didn't know if a corporate job would be for me, but I was hungry for something that would offer a new batch of problems to solve and skills to learn. They were impressed with my resumé, and I focused on how each position taught me how to teach myself new skills. My creative portfolio was old, but it showed keen attention to detail and ability to follow a brief. I got the job because I knew any skills I didn't have, I had the ability to learn as long as I was passionate about what I was doing. Working for peanuts in the outdoors for 10 years showed my interested wasn't just a passing phase. Through a combination of networking, good interviewing skills, and a lot of luck, I'm in my 30s doing product prototyping in the outdoor industry. It's more than my younger self could have dreamed of. I design, build, test, and patent innovative solutions for people who share my passions for the outdoors. I use my hands every day, solve complex problems, and work with a team that is supportive and collaborative. I have a salary, benefits, recently bought a house, and pinch myself every day that all they ask in return is that I keep solving problems. Now that you've read my life story, on to the identity crisis. I sometimes find myself asking the question "am I a former artist?". Creative problem solving is such a fulfilling skill and activity that I haven't built a piece of art "for art's sake" in a decade. For a while I thought I just needed the extra time, the space, the money to pursue art as a hobby rather than a career. Now that I have those things, I still don't have the urge to build sculpture. When I get home after my 9-5, I find myself looking for more problem solving opportunities like the ones I tackle at work. I build bicycles, repair furniture, renovate my home, and generally tinker. Problem solving scratches my creative itch in a way sculpture never quite did. I get a solid 8-10 hours a day of problem solving, but I still crave more. Making sculpture just isn't as exciting. So I may be a "former artist" who doesn't submit art to shows or express himself through visual media, but am also a current artist who learns new skills to better live, eat, and breathe creative problem solving. I will be the first to admit that my story is unique. I was incredibly lucky to find the opportunities that led to my current career path. Even luckier that my career path pays enough to keep me comfortable. I just hope every maker out there who feels burnt out on something, or thinks they've strayed from what was "the correct path" to get professional fulfillment; I hope they stay open to the possibility that following their aptitudes and staying open to new opportunities can lead to making a living executing their passions.

I spent my late teens and my twenties just working a job. I went back to school for what I was passionate about. I've now been doing what I love for 5 years and getting payed well and it rarely feels like work. Finding and getting into a career that you enjoy really is great.

Hey Adam, I enjoy watching you work because I always have fun engineering everything i can but i just don’t have resources and do my very best. maybe one day i will have a shop like yours 🥰

@ComedyCorner__

Жыл бұрын

honestly though i don’t understand why everybody doesn’t watch you all the time

I loved that explanation and am envious that you had that realization at such a young age.

Adam won the lottery for sure and it feels like we all did too - such an honest, heartfelt, thoughful, insightful and genuine answer to a great question!

I've been doing customer service for about 15 years, and I spend all of my time and energy outside of work at the makerspace, and I wish I knew more specifically what I actually wanted for a career. I once directed a short film, and the fast-paced creative problem solving world of film I really do love, but there's not really a market for it where I am. I've also been a musician for most of my life but there was never much hope for that as a career. The whole "integrity" thing kinda screwed me when I was young and now I'm sure I'm too old to play those heavy riffs. lol

Regarding the comments on "innate talent" or "born ability": “Innate talent” is a shortcut to describe the million moments the person experienced to become who they are. It is akin to cosmologists and mathematicians treating a fixed variable as infinite because the complexity of a real description is far beyond comprehension. True, some have genetic traits that modify how high in the performance index they can travel, but those traits are indiscriminate to their application. Longer arms do not mean you have an “innate talent” for swimming/climbing/boxing, but it does increase the probability that instead of becoming the top 10 in the world you reach the top 5. Almost ALWAYS, your genetic lottery matters only at the absolute top end of performance and gives diminishing returns. What we label as “discovering your innate talent” is actually you engaging in a (socially approved) activity where the rewards are sufficient enough to overcome the friction of the challenging moments, such that you continue doing it. Finally, this debunks the myth of each person being born with a target talent that they need to discover. If you want to be the absolute best in the world at something then that will take 99% off your “moments”, for the period in which you want to be "the best". But if you only want to be really really good at something then you have more than enough time to collect dozens of “really impressive talents”. Thus, "Serial Skill Collector".

Expert at the Moment, what I started calling myself a while back. Being a Serial Skill Collector is part of it. Like a Jack of all Trades. Master of none but better than most.

Thanks.

The whole time Adam was talking (and I was listening), I couldn't help but notice TWO versions of Sting on the table.

8:02 that's pure comedy! I love it xD

I'm thinking that having wealthy parents played a giant roll in career decision making or maybe an inheritance from a grandparent. My dad has told me a few times to avoid people that declare that they've been blessed or that luck has played a roll in their good fortune, personally I'm soooo lucky to be blessed with a dad who let's me borrow his credit card.

"Getting creative fullfillment out of the thing you're actually good at" That reminded me of Chris Rock's Job vs Career comedy bit. If you don't know what I am talking about, look it up.

Discovering something that one loves doing that others value (and therefore pay for) makes one a very fortunate soul. 🙂

Dear Adam, have you ever made a Mondashawan costume? I know you built the ship but I didn't see (maybe missed it?) the Mondashawan suit. I think it would be way challenging but soo cool. thanks for the years of amazement.

Seeing and making Work Art gives me more satisfaction than Fine Art, which so often means "It's art because I call it art. Don't you understand the statement it makes?"

You know someone's measured and humble when they have a tattoo of a ruler on their arm. 💪

Adam's Dad's 2nd deck: ...Burned down, fell over, THEN sank into the swamp! Adam's Dad's 3rd deck: STAYED UP!!!

Just thought you ought to know, I watched this with my roommates cat and the entire video he was very interested and event gently pawed at my phone screen a couple times!😄😂

Ok. You wet our appetite, now you have to show us some of your sculpture.

It WAS a long answer to that question as you said...but it was a great frikkin answer. Might help someone understand what they want to to with their life a bit more just from listening to your experience/explanation.

serial skill collector. i'm gonna have to remember that one

Adam was a "maker" before "makers" were a thing😁

By the third time he made it it was mostly great if that doesn't explain how Adam Savage looks at the world

I want to hear the Beach Blanket Babylon story!!!!! Please. ....

I'm gonna need more info about this laughing beer

"and by the third time he built it, it was mostly great." ROFLOL!! Can. Totally. Relate. (And it describes my Dad too).

You certainly solved that beep sound problem.

Special Effects, even those used in commercials, ARE a type of art. Therefore, how can art be "more pure" than art? And the people who make them are still artists.

"physiologically" was the word you were looking for. No stress Adam, mate. I gotchu.

This showed me that Adam Savage possesses an orderly inner monologue.

Remember the root word of art connection with artifice and artificial. Combine with definition of stone age tools as modified vs simply being altered. Art is anything a person modifies or MAKES.

It’s official, Adam Savage is a serial skiller…

I think that, as a Maker, the thing Adam most successfully made was Introspection.

What's the deal with theUnited Cutlery and Noble Collection Sting swords?

"serial skill collector". Man... .... yes, just yes!

Hi Adam, was it a predisposition that was eluding you? :)

That's some koala tea perspective on careers!

As my wife said to me 25 years ago, "You get paid to play" That's when I knew.

archetype. that was the word.

"We are the North Wind, an elite agen (kerunch!)....... We are the North Wind, an elite (KKerunch!!)......... We are the North (KKKerunchhh!!!)......." Sorry, that just came to mind with your little beeping machine. Those swords look awesome!

was it a predisposition that was eluding you?

Getting creative fulfillment out of something you are good at isn't a career, it is the "ideal career". Aspirational goal that a minority of folks will ever get to experience.

8:00 I thought he was gonna grab a rubber prop and start bashing something off screen. As a bit. 😃

The best feeling in the world is when people pay you to do the creative thing that you kinda, sorta, would do no matter if you were getting paid or not.

@zoinomiko

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it's SO good.

Two Sting’s there on the bench?

Dang, I am seeing a lot of mental health challenges in the comments on this one... I must be a pretty good place because, (while I am disabled and mildly nostalgic for the challenge and reward of the few jobs I was able to do before it caught up with me), I feel mostly just happy for everyone else, who is able to find that fulfillment in their jobs. I have different problems to solve now, navigating govt bureaucracies to get what I need from them. I suppose it DOES feel like a weight off my chest, that I don't have to find "the perfect" balance of career and making anymore - if there's not paperwork or a phone call to be done on a given day, then I have time for making as I am able to engage with it. I have a lot of freedom, even if I got it by trading for a LOT of limitations. :/ Welp, that's where creativity thrives, right?

The word you were looking for is "constitution".

A lot of this is due to our education system in the us

I think maybe the question was more geared towards "youtube making" as a full time job.

The word you are looking for 1:27 ap·ti·tude 1. a natural ability to do something.

Хрюшке привет, Адаму респект!

@deadaccount6135

Жыл бұрын

???

@BlackImpBoy

Жыл бұрын

@@deadaccount6135 I said hello to Hrushka. The name sounds funny in Russian. And respect to Adam for the detailed answer!

"I have producers yelling at me." I wonder what they said... Then again who would yell at Adam... Yelling at someone with a hearing aid doesn't help... :/ (Yes I know his hearing was not as bad.) Yes I know about hearing aids, in my whole life I have had a hearing aid.

Serial skilled Collector is a great way of saying im a hoader lol Should add this is a joke cause I know he gets rid of stuff when he realizes he doesn't need sertant things something hoarders would never do

It feels like a guy in his twenties with a big loft in SF is impossible unless he's a millionaire.

Machine: Beeps Adam: *Grabs tool and yanks at it off screen* Murder I say!

Ahhhh The Voice neVer ignore the Voice !!!!!

So, Adam is a failed professional artist? He's able to build something just until it's just good enough for the client.

Again?