I think I may dedicate the rest of my life’s work to the newborn fields of Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR), although the details of these fields aren’t vital to this thread. I’m radically creative, and I know big players will love many ideas I have for these fields. I have years of rudimentary groundwork on one idea, but my more important feature is my creative mindset, the way I can come up with new things instantly and impress and excite people with enticing possibilities. But, I have zero credentials; no successes or work history to speak of. How might I fast tack up the ranks to the top-level creative decision makers?
My main method right now is to create enticing “pitch” videos to excite the viewer about my projects, then ask an AR/MR company/etc to view it. Any tips on getting such on the desk of the higher-ranking execs?
If you insist on bringing up that thread, why don’t you summarize what you think the parallels are to this question and the aspects of it that you think the board has already responded to, to help save us all time.
It’s very difficult to make it straight to the top in any field as an outsider. So your best bet is to become an insider first.
So, start by joining a company in the field you want to break into. Since you have no reputation, track record, or impressive resume yet, you’ll need to start on the ground floor, by getting a job as Second Assistant Undersecretary in the Production Department or whatever. Even at that level, “getting a job” is not automatic, but for an exceptionally creative and inspirational person such as yourself, I’m sure you’ll have no problem passing the interview.
Once you’re inside, it’s just a matter of making your way up through the ranks, impressing the people around you, and building up a network of people who know about your abilities and are willing to trust you with increasingly ambitious projects. When you speak up with some creative idea, people will listen; when you ask for a meeting with the Big Boss in charge of allocating budget to new projects, she will know your name already and know that your ideas tend to be worth listening to.
It may take a couple of years before you’ve reached the level where you can pitch directly to top-level giants in the field. But if you’re really exceptionally good, it could go pretty fast, and those couple of years can be rewarding in their own right already. And anyway, a few years of “paying your dues” is not an unreasonably large investment for something you’re planning to dedicate the rest of your life to.
From the history of your threads, it seems like you would be well-suited to marketing or audiovisual production. You could start a Youtube channel where you can try stuff out.
As for AR/VR, if you don’t want to start in an entry-level industry position, your best bet is to make something shipable yourself from your garage/basement/bedroom. As a parallel, Christopher Nolan started his career making Following with a $6000 budget. Kevin Smith’s career was launched by Clerks with less than $30 000 budget.
On a more general note, I’m wondering about something, there may not be anything to it but here goes: Do you find yourself going through periods where everything’s great then down periods, more than is typical for most people?
Thanks, Walton. That’s helpful. While I’m not planning on that precise route per se, it’s good to think about being patient and the value of slowly building your network. It would be a bit paradoxical/difficult for someone with creative methods like mine to follow the exact formulated path you’ve laid out–or any precise formulated path–but a lot of the time-tested generals you talk about still apply, e.g. building trust over time.
Why do people on SD unfairly project grandeur onto me when I talk about having a radically creative mindset? If you think there’s a purely neutral, factual way to relay my type of braintype/skillset that isn’t going to insult and offend you, say so now or forever hold your peace. I don’t think the same way other people do; my brain is extremely atypical chemically. (Can I say “extremely atypical”?)
Because history has shown that the vast majority of people who say things like you do are not accurately self-reporting. And specifically, your previous thread was a graphic example of not seeing the world objectively.
My experience is that people who are radically creative are busy creating things.
This. If you were truly radically creative you would have already created something radical instead of asking how to pitch companies to basically get others to do the hard work for you.
Tens of thousands of people think they have groundbreaking ideas - if only someone else would make it work :rolleyes:
I’m listening to you very carefully because you’re speaking from an educated position regarding me personally. You’re also being polite; you guys only do that half time
Let’s skip a light-year of convolution to the part where I just tell you my diagnosis under the DSM. I have very potent ADHD, and also am schizoaffective (a sort of misc. category they throw you in when they can’t quite figure you out, technically a combination of elements of both bipolar and schizophrenia). Now on paper, these are called mental “disorders” but history has shown ad nauseam that people with these braintypes in some contexts can be incredibly beneficial to the world in the way of leaders, entrepreneurs, geniuses, CEOs, etc… In other contexts, they can be troublemakers. There’s not a lot of in-between, and I try my best to live in the positive end of the spectrum, so I don’t know what I can possibly say that isn’t going to offend someone hell-bent on being insulted that someone is different.
I’m 39. I’ve already been through the lifetime process of medication refinement (I’m on Lamictal, Seroquel, and always some stimulant for ADHD), in other words we’ve warded off most of the troublemaking downsides. The ONLY THING LEFT is to harness the beneficial creative elements, to change the world for the better etcetcetc… What do you suggest I call all this that isn’t going to summon hostility from others?
Yes, obviously, of course, I’m very busy creating things. Why do you assume I’m not? Because I’m not established yet? You will only accept the proof that I’m busy creating things once I’m running a multi-billion $ empire? It’s only then you’re able to see “Oh, I see, he was busy creating something!” You think that prior to the success of someone’s first invention, novel, etc, they were sitting around doing nothing?
Ideas are worth nearly nothing. There’s just too many of them out there, and the laws of supply and demand apply to ideas just as much as to any other product. What is scarce, and therefore valuable, is implementation of ideas. Don’t just come up with an idea to make something. Actually make it. Sure, yours probably won’t be as fancy and polished as something made professionally by an established company, but make something.
@Chronos: Why does the board badger me with the personal attack that I don’t work hard at building, executing, developing, writing, designing, coding, etc, etc? Where does this delusion come from and why do you keep at it?
I know quite a few successful people who initiated a later-in-life career change by taking a rather low-level job in the industry they were trying to break into. This ranges from film effects/editing to computer security. Don’t be afraid of some drudgery in order to get your face in front of the right people.
Do you have interesting ideas or are you building actual items? There’s a vast difference between coming up with an idea like “How about a spaceship that travels faster than the speed of light” and having a set of blueprints for building such a ship.
If you have interesting new ideas but haven’t nailed down the technology, I’d suggest you consider writing science fiction. That’s a genre where the idea itself is central.
Of course, ideas for new technology alone isn’t enough (as I’m sure any of the authors on this board could tell you). You also need to know how to develop plots and characters and have some writing skills.
No, they aren’t. You barely know anything about me. I will give you that there may be enough information for you to take guesses at, or that there may be red flags such as “Some of the people who talk in ways you talk aren’t hard workers,” but you don’t act like you’re guessing. You take it the point of defamatory absolution. If I were to post racial slurs and cursing at someone on the board without even any cause, would that be allowed? Why are personal attacks on my character, work-ethic, etc, based on vague patterns and absolutely zero exposure/experience to me in a work/project environment, any better than foul language that would get someone immediately banned?
Do you want to take a look at some of my online projects? Am I allowed to post links? I don’t want to sound like I’m spamming the board but I’m sick of your rabid attacks that I’m not fruitful.
That’s fair and your advice duly noted. The rub is that in my specific case, there are very few “low-level” positions that are a good fit for my braintype. I can’t just roll pennies; I’ll go crazy and kill someone. I have to be EXTREMELY creatively enganged. There are plenty of hard-working extremely creative people.
A CEO or entrepreneur isn’t someone who’s lucky or just hard-working. It’s often a specific type of person/mindtype. The CEO role has been (loosely) linked in psychology to psychopathic behavior. So if you’re a psychopath and you want to use your skillset productively, you may be specifically fitted to be a CEO and not much else. A paradox for you: what would a “low-level CEO” be?
The bigger problem with your advice in this situation is that I want to go into a very new field (AR/MR). There’s no AR/MR outlet down my street hiring. The ideas I have are for the very direction of these fields themselves so I need to be in a high-level position for my evil plans to work.
I have several years of groundwork (6 years part-time work) on an athletic AR/MR solution/application, in the form of various mediums: patent drafting, textual specifications, descriptions, enticing seminar-like videos, explanatory webpages, and hundreds of concept images. I know that’s pretty vague but I don’t have a patent yet so I can’t really share the details publicly.
