Sometimes, when trying to explain one’s world view, mindset, outlook, etcetera, it’s easier to point to someone well known and credible with a similarly-expressed view and say, ”Exactly!”
So, here I am pointing to two well-known, credible people and saying, “Exactly!”
Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, whom I admire, once wrote: “I spotted Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder, at the airport a couple of weeks ago. Whether out of shyness or the sense that he’d prefer not to be approached, I didn’t say hi. But here are his words that I quoted in Quiet. They’re as true today as they were when he wrote them. They will always be true.”
This is what Cain quoted Wozniak as saying: “Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me—they’re shy and they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone—best outside of corporate environments, best where they can control an invention’s design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some committee. I don’t believe that anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by a committee . . . I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone . . . Not on a committee. Not on a team.”
Exactly!
