“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got”
– Henry Ford
I recently re-discovered a book by Mark Shayler someone I met many years ago (promise I won’t plagiarise the whole book) a charismatic man with many great ideas.
I’ve been freelancing for over 18 years or so, spent 12 years in my last role at Fuzzy Duck as Head of Digital and for some bizarre reason spent 9 years at 7comms – damn that makes me feel old!
Sticking to the norm is easy, it becomes orderly…it’s not disruptive. Be disruptive!
I’d like to think I spent most of my career being challenged with tasks that I wasn’t 100% sure I could do, but I did it anyway and I always found a solution, whether it was experimenting with new tech….3D, VR, game development, native app dev, augmented reality, Phidget sensors, web sockets etc etc…the list goes on and I won’t bore you with the details.
In the end, you just have to do something you love!
So, what defines success? Is it money? recognition? fame?…maybe in it’s simplest form it’s watching your mum play with an interactive you made at the Manchester United Museum (free entry)…or your kids running riot at Eureka! pleading they don’t break anything you and your colleagues have spent months working on…or Steve the builder getting new clients because of the website you built him.
Success is subjective – and I haven’t peaked yet!
