Posts filed under ‘Make It Personal’
Indelible Impacts
While inking a concept onto your body sounds like an indelible way to “‘Make It Personal,” some tattoo designs have become so common they verge on the impersonal.
This is definitely not the case with the tattoos highlighted on a recent mental floss posting – which include a:
- molecular biophysicist’s math equations.
- pragmatist’s 8” ruler
- computer scientist’s reboot
Which of the Fresh Ideas strategies you’ve learned have you found are powerful enough to “tattoo” them to your mind?
ManCans
Thirteen-year-old Hart Main had no use for his sister’s “girly” candles.
That is, until he applied the Fresh Ideas strategy “Make It Personal” and created ManCans.
Hart is enjoying the sweet smell of success, making and selling candles that smell like things he knows men like to
Eat:
- New York Style pizza
- coffee
- bacon
Be around:
- new mitt
- fresh cut grass
- Grandpa’s pipe
And do:
- sawdust
- gear head
- campfire
Where’s the opportunity in something that just “isn’t you” … yet?
His Father’s Lessons
Connections are a wellspring for creativity. But what drives the ability to forge new connections?
Aza Raskin gives us a glimpse of the answer in a story about his father, Jef Raskin. Although this short vignette mentions Jef’s role in creating the Mac interface, and a passionate appreciation for design, it should be noted that Jef’s ability to create connections also fueled significant achievements in language, art, writing, commerce and family.
Read the excellent example of the Fresh Ideas strategy “Make it Personal” here.
DeleteMe
Cambridge-based Abine recognized the persistent and sometimes disconcerting challenge of protecting the information that’s available about each of us on the internet – and so created DeleteMe, a helpful example of the Fresh Ideas strategy ‘Make It Personal’ at play:
