When I Grow Up, I Want to Be Someone Who Creates Something New

You have an idea.

It's different. It's strange. It's something nobody has ever done before.

And when you tell people about it, they look at you with that face.

That face that says: "This won't work."

"Impossible," they say. "Nobody has ever done this because it can't be done."

But you can't stop thinking about this idea.

It's there, in your head, growing. Begging to exist.

You draw. You write. You try to explain.

But words aren't enough. Because what you want to create doesn't exist yet.

And now you have a choice:

Let the idea die because everyone said it's impossible?

Or try, even if you don't know if it will work?

You decide to try.

You gather materials. You make a plan. You start building.

And... it doesn't work.

It breaks. It fails. It falls apart.

You look at what you tried to create and it doesn't look anything like what you imagined.

It's frustrating. It's disappointing.

Maybe everyone was right. Maybe it is impossible.

It would be so easy to give up now.

Throw everything away. Say "I tried" and move on.

But there's something different about you.

You don't look at failure and see the end.

You look at failure and think:

"Okay, this didn't work. But what if I try it like this?"

You try again.

And you fail again.

You try a third time. A fourth. A tenth.

Each time you fail, you learn something.

"This doesn't work because..." "If I change this, maybe..." "What if I try it this way?"

People stop asking how it's going. They think you've given up.

But you haven't given up.

You're doing something that most people never do:

You're learning from failure.

Edison tried a thousand times before creating the light bulb.

The Wright brothers fell hundreds of times before flying.

Santos Dumont was called crazy.

Creating something new isn't trying once and succeeding.

It's trying a thousand times until it works.

And then, in an attempt you didn't expect much from...

It works.

Not perfectly. Not like you imagined at first.

But it works.

You stand there, looking. You can hardly believe it.

The thing that was only in your head now exists in the real world.

You've created something that didn't exist before.

You've turned the impossible into possible.

And in that moment, you understand:

You're not someone who has ideas and waits for others to make them happen.

You're someone who makes them happen.

You're a creator.

Now that you've created once, you see opportunities everywhere.

"What if I did this?" "What if I tried that?"

You're no longer afraid of failing, because you know each failure teaches you.

And other people start to see your creation.

They say: "Wow, I never thought this was possible!"

And you smile, because you remember when you thought it was impossible too.

Leonardo da Vinci imagined flying machines 400 years before the airplane existed.

Steve Jobs created computers that seemed like magic.

Walt Disney turned drawings into an empire.

They weren't born creators. They chose to create.

And now it's your turn.

What impossible will you turn into possible?