Just would like to point out you’re mostly wasting your time with squish7. See this past thread. He doesn’t really want to be told he has to do actual hard work.
Sorry squish.
Is this still the “build your own movie from YouTube clips of people doing parkour” project?
Thanks for the link. I remember the thread, but hadn’t remembered the OP. It saves a lot of typing knowing that anything written would simply be rejected since it wouldn’t be what they want to hear.
I’ve been involved with or in a position to observe quite a few startups, as well as having set up my own company which didn’t do particularly well. OK, it did quite poorly, and that was despite having done something similar for someone else. I’m just not the type which can do everything required to get something going on my own. Bitter lesson learned.
A lot of the hard-earned advice I would given would have been similar to the advice given in that thread. If the OP were actually serious about wanting to sell a product into the Augmented Reality market, it’s going to take a hell of a lot more knowledge than even the best a hobbiest can muster. Go work in the industry for a bunch of years. Really understand the market and see what products can and can’t sell and why.
The person I know with the greatest creativity is my younger brother. He has thousands of revolutionary ideas which would make him a billionaire. He’s also homeless. People have been telling him for decades that ideas themselves are worthless, but he’s never really gotten it.
Some Kickstarters go on for quite a while. The game Star Citizen started on Kickstarter at least 5 years ago and is still not released.
Of the people who fail, how many would you say didn’t have the atypical creative brain chemistry that’s common to so many wildly successful entrepreneurs, leaders, inventors, CEOs, etc? Like how many people just said “I want to be rich” and had no truly creative mindset or manic push/obsession with bringing something unique into reality?
I have a creative brain beyond all else, and let’s just assume I’m able to do the hard work and dedication stuff. Of the people who have extreme natural/innate “genius” creativity and do the dedicated work, what fraction of those would you say still fail, and why?
Here is a GREAT NYT article on what I’m talking about:
Just Manic Enough: Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs
In short, it’s about a guy who’s manic enough to be a successful entrepreneur (in that his mania is part of the very reason he’s a good entrepreneur), but no so manic that he can’t function due to his mania.
I have that type of mania, and also I have very potent ADHD; those 2 conditions (mania & ADHD) are both astronomically and intrinsically linked to creativity, and may success stories are linked to those mental characteristics.
I know it’s a tricky question, but can you theorize on which startups failed because there WASN’T an innate, creative mind and the head of the project, and which failed even though they had a hardworking creative brain involved?
Also note (though this isn’t as relevant to me) that many CEOs are known to have similar traits to a psychopath; now I’m not a psychopath so maybe that’s a minus (lol), but it’s just one more reason that success stories are tied to intrinsic mental characteristics, and not just who works hard.
In all honesty, you do come across as manic and heavily ADHD. I have ADHD myself. I also am a professional in the creative field and have worked on a few films in CGI and have done some network broadcast stuff too. I’ve been self-employed for over 10 years now, and it’s been some of the hardest, but most satisfying work I’ve done in my life.
That said, if someone like you approached me, I’d be repelled by your odd energy. There’s a certain naïveté that comes across in the way you try to keep justifying your ideas-to-become-works-of-genius. And that’s another thing: Delusions of grandeur. That you’re this diamond that’s just waiting to be discovered so that the world may splendor in your magnificence.
But what have you done prior to this? Not just talk. No hubris. What’s your track record? Where’s your portfolio or reel? What have you done?
Why would anyone assume that, though? You have demonstrated the opposite in this thread and in the thread where you wanted to use other people’s parkour footage to convince someone to make a movie. So sure, if we assume that you have all the traits you need to succeed it’s likely that you will, but that’s not consistent with the way you’ve acted. The hard work and dedication is actually the hard part of making something work, coming up with a neat idea and a bit of concept art is trivial that it’s not even worth mentioning.
- sigh *
Just read the screenwriter+everything else thread.
I too have ADHD and bipolar disease, which I manage through medicine and therapy. Often when sick one/me/OP cries out and tries to suss out, somehow, if the world truly understands what he (not without grandiose pride) himself knows about the fragmented nature of his mind/emotions/creativity, that he knows that: …it’s all fragmentary/yet it’s all brilliant, and I know that because I the ADD-Touched by Saturn-creative Manic can even recognize that (it’s fragmented) (and brilliant)…and then, with only that manicly half-grasped self-realization) demand the rest of the world free him from the mania: why can’t they see?
Can’t you see I’m sane?
This is the point that my wannabe inventor brother never could understand. He’s got easily a dozen ideas that would revolutionize air travel but he won’t build models because creative geniuses don’t need to do that.