10-28-2009, 04:10 PM
I think if you limit yourself to one area, you might get bored, i.e. joke telling and comedy. If you widen your horizons and allow yourself to be a curious and continuous learner, you'll never be bored. How could you be? There's are so many things to learn, do, and explore.
I would tell that Monty Python guys to come work with my dad and I on our endless stream of projects. For example there's the offshore artificial reef project. Or our high altitude real-time wireless camera helium blimp project. Or our tethered under water camera ROV project. Or our dynamic inlet theory/treasure hunting project. Then there's our Civil War archaeological project. Not to mention our solar powered ocean roving side scan sonar robot project. Then there's the highly dangerous Opequon River Zip line project. I'll leave out the more boring farming and botanical projects. I'm not going to even bring up the magnetometer and sub bottom profiler that we're trying to build.
Anway, I think the key might be curiosity. I know my dad has kept his for 60+ years. I hope I can keep mine (and it doesn't get me killed -- we had a close call with the "high swing" rope swing project this summer).
(I mention my dad since he's 65 and still comes up with his share of the ideas).
Edit: I guess to sum up, my theory is that your passion can't be limited to, say, picture frame making. That could get boring (although I have done that too as part of project router)
I would tell that Monty Python guys to come work with my dad and I on our endless stream of projects. For example there's the offshore artificial reef project. Or our high altitude real-time wireless camera helium blimp project. Or our tethered under water camera ROV project. Or our dynamic inlet theory/treasure hunting project. Then there's our Civil War archaeological project. Not to mention our solar powered ocean roving side scan sonar robot project. Then there's the highly dangerous Opequon River Zip line project. I'll leave out the more boring farming and botanical projects. I'm not going to even bring up the magnetometer and sub bottom profiler that we're trying to build.
Anway, I think the key might be curiosity. I know my dad has kept his for 60+ years. I hope I can keep mine (and it doesn't get me killed -- we had a close call with the "high swing" rope swing project this summer).
(I mention my dad since he's 65 and still comes up with his share of the ideas).
Edit: I guess to sum up, my theory is that your passion can't be limited to, say, picture frame making. That could get boring (although I have done that too as part of project router)
"Hamilton is really a Colossus to the anti republican party. Without numbers he is an host within himself. They have got themselves into a defile where they might be finished but too much security on the republican part will give time to his talents and indefatigableness to extricate them. We have had only middling performances to oppose to him. In truth when he comes forward there is nobody but yourself who can meet him. His adversaries having begun the attack he has the advantage of answering them and remains unanswered himself. For God's sake take up your pen and give a fundamental reply to Curtius and Camillas" - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison