To give you an example of the similarties. I've been learning writing, storytelling, and storyboarding over the last year. Even practiced sketching so I could do storyboards.
More recently, AI, software engineering, business strategy, and a tiny bit of marketing, data science, and venture capital.
The other thing that helps is that I always try to have a showable/shippable output. Nothing that's just in my head or scattered notes that wouldn't make sense to others.
A fav quotes, "The reason you want to be creative is because you consume every day. To balance out your energy, you also need to create every day." and “Don’t tell me. Show me!”
I worked as a product manager in a bank and didn't have a good answer back then. My tech peers always asked, why can't we build X instead of using vendor Y.
After self-studying what is taught in an MBA with books, blogs, podcasts, and online courses, I get the value now. Like the quote in goodwill hunting, you can do it for a little more now than the dollar fifty in late charges at the public library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIdsjNGCGz4&t=7s
Here's how I look at it now.
Would you go build a mobile app, a website, cloud platform after reading a few blogs? Your friend tells you this, what would you think?
But don't we do this with business? Design? etc.
It's a trained skill like any other. You go and learn, train, practice to hit a baseball. Paint a portrait. Engineer an application. And so, you combine art with science to discover and build a business.
It shouldn't be this rare or hard to start a business. The way people think about entrepreneurship and innovation is that it's unruly, chaotic.
It's an illusion. It is a profession like all others:
1. You create new technology, a new ability to do something to invent.
2. To innovate, you:
- Discover how to apply it to the real world.
- Design a way to bring to market for a profit. Launch in the market.
The problem with all those takes on MBAs is we all start life appreciating our own craft more than other peoples'. Hey, I did too. But over time, you learn to appreciate all crafts as much as your own.
Hey, I definitely relate to some of this. The trick is to turn it from passively consuming information to turning it into active learning. When you watch these documentaries, make notes of what you just heard. You start to become more engaged. This video helped me, https://youtu.be/V-UvSKe8jW4, How To Remember Everything You Learn
I realized I’m always curious to learn how things work. So I figured out I could use it to make it my center of focus and try to build a company around it. This is the start http://rigelblu.com
We make the world more complex than it needs to be sometimes. Probably often. Maybe you can use your curiosity in those subjects and interests to help make it easier for others?
It feels they didn't have shame from the movies I remember watching as I was growing up in the 90s/00s?
I remember this one vividely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4WOo8IJzVg