Constraints drive innovation.
- Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon
I was reading the other day and this quote just jumped off the page at me. I have been working on some projects lately and I have caught myself complaining that I don’t have the right tools or the right equipment to do the job “right.” Whether it is computer equipment or software or something for the yard, it always seems like I am missing something that would really help make my job “easy.”
What has happened though, is exactly what this quote says. I learn to be innovative and creative. When I can’t get something to work exactly right, I am forced to figure out a way to do it. It’s not always pretty, and maybe it doesn’t get the job done exactly the same way, but it works.