Ask Adam Savage: Collecting Failures

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Has Adam ever had a failure that the client/boss liked better than what they had originally asked for? Does Adam collect his failures to potentially fix them later or act as reminders? In this excerpt from our April 20 live stream, Adam answers questions from Tested members James Dutrow, Ian Crook and Alex G Reid relating to failure. Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks, such as asking Adam a question:
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@tested 3 года назад

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@ProfaneGod 3 года назад

The majority of human advancement has been made by failing at trying to do something else chemistry is a prime example of this

@TMWriting 3 года назад

I don't think that's the right talk that you've linked 🤨

@shaymorcormick8743 3 года назад

My friend kept his first ever attempt at a leather custom stamp. He was making leather leaf keychains for cons. Original he was hand cutting them out. My wife spent all weekend and the yeild was still pretty low. I bounced the idea of making a cut stamp to factory the entire thing. We used awful metal, learn more about welding. First attempt was so ugly and terrible. It made us laugh and he kept it as inspiration

@roccodavis4775 3 года назад

pro trick : watch series at flixzone. Been using it for watching loads of movies during the lockdown.

@romanmateo2566 3 года назад

@Rocco Davis yup, I've been watching on flixzone for years myself :)

@robodabbler 3 года назад

As a metal sculptor (a few decades ago), I used to hang all my failures on the wall. One day I took them all down and welded them into a monstrosity from the Elder Gods. I put it in a show, and someone bought it.

@heavymetalbassist5 3 года назад

ive the same plan for all my learning to blacksmith "pile of garbage" as my wife calls it

@tested 3 года назад

Wow! Amazing story!

@caodesignworks2407 3 года назад

Similar ish, story. I was in my second year of welding in high school and I was somewhat bored. The teacher was gone and most of us were just doing some practice welds on the old tombstone Lincolns. I was messing around with the OxyAce. I decided I was going to use the practice scraps to make a big duck. I started welding and welding and before I knew it, I had a duck that stood about 5 ft. high and about 3ft long. Took about an hour of welding. The teacher came back in right before the class was supposed to end (it was an hour and a half free-session day) and took one look at it, exclaimed "WHO MADE THIS MONSTROSITY" in such a loud voice. Everyone pointed at me. He looked it over and said "the welds look great, the duck looks okay. I like how you did the wings..." He started walking away, got about 20ft, looked at me and said "good job. Now take it all apart, piece by piece." I had at least 100 or so scraps of steel welded together. I got really good at using the cutting torch. I had to spend the entire next class cutting it apart. It was fun at first, but then other people needed to use the torch, which fell onto me to do everyone's cutting that wasn't part of a test.

@wobblysauce 3 года назад

The classic, good-looking weld, or one that holds, does it withstand the hammer test.

@MorrisonManor 3 года назад

@@wobblysauce Our teacher thought it was great fun to drag the anvil (On a cheesy angle iron obelisk of a stand) across the shop floor just as you were getting into the dime-dropping groove with the gas welding test.

@Ziz62266 3 года назад

One of my favorite building philosophies: "The problem with doing it right the first time is that no one appreciates how difficult it was."

@Max_Marz 3 года назад

HOLY FUCK

@Max_Marz 3 года назад

I made a sign for the shop that says "the fastest way to make a part is to do it right the first time" but its cut short on the length so it says -first tim" the M is partially cut off. I did this to remind *myself* to slow down and take the time I needed to do it right after I had scrapped a few too many parts the previous months. I will be engraving this on the back of it tomorrow, just large enough to comfortably read.

@PhilG999 3 года назад

Had a temp gig a few years where the shop foreman (vacuum forming plastic stuff) was this bipolar asshole. One minute he was telling me he needed ONE guy like me that could do everything and five minutes later was telling me he could hire 100 guys just like me! One day a wooden form (too cheap to have a metal one made) broke as they were in the middle of a production run. Told me to fix it. So I took both halves in to my work area and glued the broken pieces together then put a BUNCH of "deck screws" in to reinforce it. Just as I got the last one in he came storming in saying he could have done it twice in the time I was taking! I calmly told him that he could have "patched" it half the time and then done it again when it broke again. Said THIS will not break again! It didn't. Only job I ever quit in anger, (some time later) over his BS!

@Rembrant65 3 года назад

Asking for help is hard. That's why it is so important to not demean & degrade an employee who asks for help. Just help them.

@Mrleejunman 3 года назад

Can't help but keep seeing Kenny over his right shoulder.

@BlueOceanBelow 3 года назад

Kenny's shaking in his boots being around all of those machines.

@edgyostrich8095 3 года назад

Amogus

@JohnKerns91 3 года назад

You bastards

@comfortablynumb9342 3 года назад

Don't kill Kenny

@Nintendont64 3 года назад

Amongoose

@PhilippG88 3 года назад

In an engineering-team i worked with, we had the "box of shame". A big box of all parts that were designed/made but turned out to be failures. Every new person had to dig through the box to see the mistakes the others had done. This was our way of teaching new members how to not do things and learn from our mistakes.

@NewMessage 3 года назад

That table saw thing reminds me of the pair of torn up, and suspiciously stained jeans that used to hang near the hoofstock feed storage at the zoo I worked at years ago. It had a simple sign that read: "Pay attention to reindeer in rut."

@86fifty 3 года назад

Well THAT'S a story you don't see every day!

@MalfunctionNeo 3 года назад

To paraphrase "you don't fail, you successfully find a way it wouldn't work"

@valeriebrincheck6034 3 года назад

As a maker my shop is far from clean. From floor to ceiling is shelves and drawers full of all my “stuff” so I have no wall space to show my failures. That said I have few failures because I work on it until I fix it and it is acceptable to me. (Which means I have learned to embrace imperfections more often.) My favorite saying ever is that a “mistake is only an embellishment opportunity”.

@stangiles2001 3 года назад

This goes in top ten of Adams words of wisdom. Failures are called still trying and learning. Asking for help, guys can be really bad at that. Losing friends over things, well that's a tough one.

@ezrae3355 3 года назад

A project I have been working on since the beginning of 2020 has failed badly after construction, but I'm not going to let that failure define my project. I am going to keep it as a reminder that when I fail I can use that failure as a teaching tool for me and for others . Our greatest failures in life should not define us. They should inspire us and others to do better, to do what we could only imagine.

@Joe___R 3 года назад

One of the simple truths of life is that you are going to make mistakes, the thing that separates people is how quickly you learn from them & what you do to to prevent those mistakes in the future.

@louisegrimhelm3041 3 года назад

Dad had a boat part on the windowsill of his shop, wrapped in masking tape with writing on it that said "2 weeks of work" and various profanities. I mounted it in a shadow box and added a label "don't buy cheap s**t from ebay". It now has pride of place in our lounge room.

@pinkcurve 3 года назад

Thank you Adam, I just messed up the most important relationship in my life about a year ago, and I still can't get through the sadness, I still feel I am the worst person in the world, so, thank you for sharing your story, it helps.

@pinkcurve 3 года назад

@@Lamenter40K thank you so much, that's what I'm trying now, it's just still when I think of the people hurt by me, I just... I don't know... but, thank you, really.

@ingriddaniel766 3 года назад

Thanks, Adam - I really needed to hear this today. It has been a rather messed up day, and to get the reminder that we are all human, and that we all mess up from time to time, is priceless!

@rcjbvermilion 3 года назад

"We need more crap on the walls." - Adam Savage, 2021 (different video, but the message is still the same)

@andy-in-indy 3 года назад

As makers, we feel it is OK to reinvent the wheel just to do it our way and we usually think of ourselves as capable of doing anything, given enough time and material. But it is so important (especially for newer makers) to model the phrase, "It is beyond what I can do right now. Please help me do/learn these parts/steps/tasks." And it is just as important for makers to see people getting help when help is asked for.

@artbybaz7060 3 года назад

Out of all the many Tested videos over the years this is my new favourite. Needed this more than I realised. Saved for rewatching and sharing with friends and family. Thank you Adam.

@cachemaine2 3 года назад

My personal philosophy is that nothing is a failure if you learned something from it, the only time you truly fail is when you fail to learn.

@clymdodds1020 3 года назад

I have come to appreciate the virtue of pace when it comes to minimising failure. Getting a nice hot cup of tea some dunking biscuits and having a good long think about the process. Yes, break it down but I try not to do too many stages at once. Slow and steady.

@sou1creeper211 3 года назад

The Star Wars sequels suck, but there is one line that replays in my mind when I need guidance. "The Greatest Teacher, Failure is." Tom acknowledge your failures is one of the greatest signs of strength and growth.

@lauriedepaurie 3 года назад

I notice in education and culture we tend to be result focussed. By which (personally) I have developed a fear of failure. Making it harder for me to accept and embrace mistakes, learning process and it's a major threshold for me to develop new skills. People like you who openly share 'mistakes' and 'failures' make it a little easier breaking that mental cycle of wanting to do everything right the first time

@searchandrescuepenguin4602 3 года назад

One of my training chiefs always said “Failure is one of the best teaching tools”

@dcorey35 3 года назад

Embracing failure has served me well over my career and a great instructor. I try to get back to. How did it happen? What can be done to prevent from happening again? Great teaching tool.

@VonBlade 3 года назад

9:31 I *was* excited. On Tuesday I hugged my Mum for the first time since March 2020. It was amazing.

@Jimorian 3 года назад

One thing that I've realized about mistakes and failures and things that go wrong in general: they often form our strongest memories, and end up being the backbone of the stories we tell in future years.

@patrickvaugn897 3 года назад

I think you should do a once a month " finally finishing this project " episode...and actually finish them one at a time

@CheapCheerful 3 года назад

Listening to you is the best therapy I never had. Thank you Adam.

@NewMessage 3 года назад

If I were that James guy from the beginning, I'd cap that "Mmmmm... James Dutro." and use it as my ringtone.

@alanaschlotter6324 3 года назад

I don't know why but a discussion of collecting failures reminded me of the children's picture 'Beautiful Oops' by Barney Saltzburg, basically it talks about turning your mistakes into something beautiful.

@charlie9ine 3 года назад

Failure is just the step that is necessary to go to the next level. Fail and fix is better than being afraid to fail. I’ve Don this for over 40 years. I’ve achieved and over achieved my goals as an artist. It’s not important but sometimes it gives credibility to my experience. Act, fail, fix, repeat. Take on the hardest thing first and master it. The rest is down hill.

@Picoreefo 3 года назад

Forgiving ourselves not for our mistakes but for being human. Wow. Thank you.

@cpsedmonds 3 года назад

In college, a classmate scanned in a sketch of their robot for 3D modelling without checking the resolution. It made their 3" tall sketch an A1 size, so we tiled it up on the wall with the caption of "Mr Robot wants you to check your printing resolution".

@cpoco 3 года назад

Hearing/reading of that friends film mess up always hurts. I feel bad for Adam, I feel bad for the person making the film... it just hurts feeling how horrible that whole situation was. I'm glad Adam used it to grow and I hope that friend rebounded too.

@punkboyblue 3 года назад

This reminds me of an episode of mythbusters about "compact compacts" Failure is always an option. A great quote to live by

@Zoaboa723 3 года назад

I was recently rejected from an internal promotion at my job that was given to an external hire instead because my supervisor's supervisor doesn't think I'm ready to take on the maintenance and leadership responsibility that comes with it. They were very clear to note that they think I'm a great employee and they love working with me, but that I still do have a bit of growing. This video has really helped me come to peace with why they made that decision. I'm still young (I would have been the youngest person to assume that role had they hired me, which I wanted to be and I think my ego was apparent in that which I need to work on like you were saying with wanting to fix everything). The truth is I do have some growing to do. I definitely rush things and need to learn to slow down mentally to not loose touch when making decisions. Of course it's hard and doesn't feel good but this really helped me not judge myself as much.

@TheSaltMine 3 года назад

I love messing up, I love being proven wrong! it's usually the most helpful, because I can be told how to do something right around 10-100 times but when I get it wrong is when it really sticks. it's not a bad thing, it's a useful thing.

@Imiancrook 3 года назад

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on my question! I'm really happy that it's caused so much positive conversation around failing at anything. I wonder if we'll start seeing more shown proudly!

@sschmidtevalue 3 года назад

ACCURATE self-awareness is one of the most important skills you can acquire and practice!

@DesolationUSA 3 года назад

Adam would probably love the local woodworkers guild hall. They has SawStops on all the table saws, anyone who sets it off has their name written on whats left of the blade and the whole piece (as the stop shoves itself into the blade to stop they effectively stuck together) is hung from the ceiling.

@Scodiddly 3 года назад

Great episode. I do a lot of work repairing stuff, and while it feels good to fix stuff, it’s alway possible that I’ll completely botch something and leave it even worse than when I started. Always good to keep that in mind. And yes, it does still happen once in a while. More experience just means making failures less often.

@pkirill123 3 года назад

I like keeping early iterations around because while they didn’t work for whatever reason, they tend to have the most interesting or quirky design elements...

@yetiking2057 3 года назад

Inspiring antidote for those who fear failure. Surrounding oneself with ones older work is quite healthy.

@Son_Of_Atreides 3 года назад

I actually print out some of the more interesting and amusing programming errors and put them on my cube walls. Always fun to remember some of them and the learning that happened.

@RabidTurtle999 3 года назад

@AdamSavagesTested This is really what I needed today. I screwed up and it's been a huge learning experience. Thank you for your words of wisdom.

@twilliams1755 3 года назад

Failure is always an option!

@Reksrat 3 года назад

I feel like I could apply what you said to myself. I have a problem accepting help and asking for it. For a non-trivial amount of time I had a saying "If I can't do it myself I shouldn't be doing it" and "Help that isn't asked for isn't help" which are both toxic as hell mindsets.

@heavymetalbassist5 3 года назад

This is one our best talks yet 👍👍👍👍 thank you for being such an awesome person

3 года назад

This wall of failures for maker spaces is a great idea because it would/could serve another purpose in such a public space with lots of "noobs" coming in all the time: if you'd add names, and maybe restrict it to the old hands, then "noobs" could see that even the experienced a) have been noobs at some point and that b) even they fuck up from time to time. I think this could really help lower the intimidation.

@bajasoobnut 3 года назад

Not asking for help is one of my major flaws for sure, I have had to figure things out and do things by myself for too long in life in general for a lot of things including in the model shop.

@davidl4191 3 года назад

The weird thing to me is how painful it can be to ask for help on a project, even when you know for certain a particular coleuge not only has the answer or skill you need or are lacking, but that they're even a blast to work with and would be Happy to jump right in there with you! It shouldn't be hard to ask, but sometimes there is no logical reason, it just is... we humans can be a strange creature sometimes.

@tigershirew7409 3 года назад

I really appreciate that you are willing to talk about the....not great....stuff. And you do a very good job of communicating. I learn so much from these kinds of questions that you answer and through all this past crazy pandemic year, your videos have given me so much good advice. Especially since one of my twin nieces (17) is a maker and she turns to me for advice on things for her cosplay costumes that she makes. I hope to be able to pass on your sage wisdom, to help her see possibilities in the things that don't work out. Thank you.

@billdodson207 3 года назад

hanging tests and discarded iterations up is good also - not just the "failures"

@rndm9087 3 года назад

what happened to the dinosaur builds? i was genuinely learning from them and was looking forward to seeing Adam play with the dino he was making.

@narutodayo 3 года назад

I'm struggling on a project right now, and this really helped give me some perspective. Thank you!

@j3tztbassman123 3 года назад

As a line cook, with 20 years at the stove, it's frequently done as mentioned. Here are the specials, figure out what you need, and how to execute them.

@chadwcmichael 3 года назад

I have my current projects all over the place, and all of my half done tinker things packed in my Realm of Eventually, so when I’m bored I can dig one out.

@njbrad007 3 года назад

Keeping project failures is like computer programmers who can't delete failed projects. More important than inspiration or future fixing; it is a reminder of one way that won't work. Once you know "all" the ways that don't work, you end up with one that does. Sometimes you also need to remember that working is good enough. STOP trying to make it better. Shipping is a feature.

@TheDeliciousMystery 3 года назад

I paint a lot of minatures and i dont understand the people who throw their failures out. One of my biggest failures was a samurai standing on some classical red wooden shrine decking. I completely messed it up because i had never really tried to make something that looked like wood that had been painted, aged, weathered and generally put to use for decades. Now i know how to do that and i saw the failure because its important to compare the two not just to remind you that you are always improving but to really impress "dont doubt your process now, you have already failed at this and you know you know how to solve those problems". Nothings worse than "did i really improve or just by dumb luck get it right once?" and seeing your progress is an important counter to self doubt.

@custos3249 3 года назад

One of the most critical elements of making, and life, is failure analysis. A shame it's so rare because fault analysis is so popular

@autumnrain1892 3 года назад

"I don't like asking for help." We so twinning.

@kurtspann442 3 года назад

I installed a timing belt wrong on a truck and caused internal damage( valves going through pistons) we use the pistons as paper weights where customers see it. They ask and we say this is what can happen to a timing belt breaking so you should replace the belt regularly. Great visual selling point to people. Not sure how many times my screw up saved other engines.

@searchandrescuepenguin4602 3 года назад

“Failure is always an option”

@SWGhostbuster 3 года назад

I was using the table saw at work, not part of my job set but I needed two pieces of plywood and no one was around. Having used one at home I just set it up and turned it on. In the middle of the cut one of the workers comes in, catches and tells me to be careful it has a tendency to kick back. Apparently he got the board to the gut a month or so earlier.

@olsonspeed 3 года назад

Failures are offerings to the gods of success.

@donsmith5913 3 года назад

Kenneth Hildebrand said… “The poorest of all men is not the one without a nickel to his name. He is the fellow without a dream…[He is like] a great ship made for the mighty ocean but trying to navigate in a millpond. He has no far port to reach, no lifting horizon, no precious cargo to carry. His hours are absorbed in routine and petty tyrannies. Small wonder if he gets dissatisfied, quarrelsome and “fed up.” One of life’s greatest tragedies is a person with a 10-by-12 capacity and a two-by-four soul.”

@MrGreenAKAguci00 3 года назад

This is super wholesome. I needed it. Thanks.

@UncleKennysPlace 3 года назад

A collection of failures = my life. The first guitar neck I made 50 years ago hangs next to me as I type this.

@stephanieamare 3 года назад

If I don't keep things physically, I'll have at least committed it to history through photos and other means. I think something that was both my biggest failure, and biggest triumph was Revell Saturn V 1/144 model, about 7 years ago. I made so many mistakes with it, but at the same time it was the first model kit I had put together, and I had fun with it. I also learned a lot of things from it--besides what not to do. So it's a reminder that no matter how bad a build or something else might go--don't allow it to keep you from moving forward, or trying something else and something new. If I had...well, my drawing/graphics tablet wouldn't have a stand that I designed and 3D printed very recently. Which 3D printing again, is often riddled with failures--with prints themselves or misculations and wrong measurements.

@robertbownes6718 3 года назад

In my garage I hang all the bent, battered, and broken race car parts that got that way by me doing dumb stuff, I call it the Wall of Shame. It is very effective to look at on the night we are loading the race car up to go racing. I come home with fewer and fewer... :)

@GotWub 3 года назад

From the title I thought this was going to be about collecting memorabilia and occasionally getting scammed or breaking things in your collection

@mrjed 3 года назад

i want more on adam's outlook on being a human, felt nice

@nicks931 3 года назад

Such good, sensible advice. Thank you.

@TheOldBlackCrow 3 года назад

That's so funny... When I did web design in the 90s, I had a client who loved my "failed" attempt. I wasn't ready to show and they were insistent on my show the first draft which I thought was awful. But the loved it! I wince every time I think of it.

@theautisticcreative2619 3 года назад

Failures are the keys to improving your craft. I keep all my writing failures as well as pieces people have liked, as they both inspire me to better my craft, as knowing what works and what doesn't in any creative environment are the keys to your success. I failed when I built my own Assassin's Creed replica hidden blade devices. I realised that the failure I was having was due to the choice of draw slide. My first choice was the draw slides from an old chest of drawers, but the design wasn't right. My next choice, after thinking it over was a pair of heavy duty ball bearing cabinet draw slides, which turned out to be suitable for the job. With some door hinges, some rope, two jubilee clips, as well as some nuts and bolts I made the basic design of what I wanted (minus the actual blade), it ended up being a gravity assisted blade release design when you pulled up the door hinge safety up (it also wouldn't let the blade cut your fingers when closed either) I later attached the hidden blade systems to a pair of Steel vambraces, then added medical grade wrist supports for extra support and padding.

@TheScorch191 3 года назад

I don't have a shop but i do have a lego model that is half done with little detail work done, but i keep it on my desk to remind me that it WILL be done someday.

@slugdaluga 3 года назад

I have the D'Angostino model of the Millenium Falcon that's been about 80% done for two years. I'm at the point of weathering and airbrush detail painting but I just can't bring myself to start back up because my airbrush skills are virtually nonexistent a d I don't want to screw up this huge, beautiful model.

@fede0101 3 года назад

Amazing, I should watch more of your videos, really uplifting! Thanks Adam

@TheRenaissanceBuilder 3 года назад

Oh wow i did not realize this was a currently running thing this is great

@DragonAceSg7 Год назад

I have a very hard time asking for help. I had so much pressure on me as a kid because I was 'so smart' so I felt terrified when I didn't understand so I didn't know what to do with my self. And there are other things but it is hard, to ask for help, I've gotten better with it but it's still hard.

@elanorgrimes5655 2 года назад

I do cross stitch, not sure if that's making or not but anyway. With cross-stitch you can go back and and undo then redo mistakes. Sometimes though I leave my mistakes in because then it makes that pattern uniquely mine.

@kenstephens3467 3 года назад

Easily the best video. So much of you in this one. I could say your awesome but not going too. I will say your a human and thank you for that. So glad you continued on after mythbusters and put out these clips of yourself. Cheers mate.

@denbid 3 года назад

Great information keep up the failures because it can only get better

@sushihamster1 3 года назад

How is it these are always so timely.

@m10653 3 года назад

Its funny you talk about hanging up your failures. In my robotics club we had a nut and bolt hung up on the wall where the nut was Corse pitch and the bolt was fine Screwed into eachother. With some caption about how not to crossthreads bolts

@cedricmilford5254 3 года назад

Sometimes it takes a failure to realize who we really are; imperfect and human. We pick ourselves up and resolve to do better. Self berating doesn’t benefit us at all.

@thrice1888 3 года назад

I’m thinking of the funny scenario where at a shop class or maker space and a kid not understanding the idea of being inspired and learning from your mistakes, being confused and upset why the teacher keeps on nailing his failures to the wall lol

@draegonspawn5361 3 года назад

Similar vein. I typed DragonSpawn wrong years and years ago in a game. Have embraced it and use DraegonSpawn everywhere, I love it.

@jrmintz1 3 года назад

I have a very hard time forgiving myself for being a profoundly imperfect human being. However as a musician I do certain things very well. I try to see my failures as invitations to learn something new.

@sleepingninjaquiettime 3 года назад

Is this a re-upload? I swear I've heard Adam talk about this before. Doesn't matter, failure is an awesome thing to talk about, I also think too many people dwell on thier failure. Don't dwell, Learn from it!!!

@richardanderson7183 3 года назад

I recall in his book 'Every Tool is a Hammer', that he mentions the story about losing a close friendship due to his youthful inability to delegate work. Kind of sad; a tough life lesson. Perhaps that is where you seem to remember this from? Adam is very forthright about his shortcomings (few as they are) in many of his videos. I love that honesty in him.

@Sysadminsith 3 года назад

The last minute of this video is movingly real.

@roxisone 3 года назад

Adam you're an inspiration. Ty

@PENFOLD5 3 года назад

My High School woodshop teacher had numerous 'kickback trophies' hung up on the walls

@writerpatrick 3 года назад

Repairmen get experience through the number of things they break.

@danglin987 3 года назад

Thank you, this was so helpful

@rootvalue 3 года назад

**PLEASE ENABLE AUTO-GENERATED CAPTIONS**

@tested 3 года назад

Done, apologies

@rootvalue 3 года назад

@@tested my absolute hero

@Celtic_Blade 3 года назад

I am a writer. My failures live in a cabinet, and inside, lining the walls of my skull. My failures wake me up in the middle of the night just to remind me I suck.

@user-fk8zw5js2p 3 года назад

@BOOK PILE you're not as bad as you think. Milking negative emotions is an efficient way to tire the mind. If you catch yourself doing this, try to meditate instead. Logical repetition is also tiring for the mind. Must be nice for makers to have an objective representation of their fail which prevents memories of it from becoming bloated, even though Adam was making the point that they do well to serve as pretty preventative reminders. Life has side-stepped your problem by making memories dull with time and age.

@bldallas 3 года назад

Please give us a guided tour of your maker space!!!!

@christopherdean1326 3 года назад

Regarding bosses not being satisfied with your work. A few jobs ago, I was a warehouse manager for an office furniture company, and the big boss decided to start renting out some of our unused building space for archive storage. He left written instructions as to how he wanted it laid out, which I followed to the best of my ability, even though I thought it was a stupid way of doing it. When he came to inspect the work, he said I had not done it how he wanted it, but my way was in fact better! To this day I wonder what f*cked-up, ass-backwards scheme he originally had in mind!

@robbymanable 3 года назад

Remember: “Failure is always an option!”

@davisstafford4569 3 года назад

Hey Adam My best friend has watched every episode of myth busters multiple times, and this June he turns 21, would it be possible for you to wish him a happy birthday?