A creator traces their path from childhood fascination with shapes and engines through photography, design, and failed startups like Packful and OTD. Despite financial instability and setbacks, they keep making because creation is how they express who they are, and that part of them cannot be silenced.
Every day I try to describe soul. Maybe you can hum 8 bars of what soul represents. I love to create things, but to show you guys why, I need to bring you back to the beginning. Here's my parents. They got married and I was the first child born of 4th of April, 1992. At a young age, I was really curious with shapes and patterns. I paid a lot of attention to them. As I grew older, Tamiya cars were like the in thing, but I wasn't really interested in the car per se. It was the engine that I was really interested in, and I wanted to create one. And this was the first experience of me trying to create something at the age of 6. At the age of 8, this beige thing came along. Remember this sound? It's like the slowest shit on earth, but this was the first tool that got me to create and played a lot of games as well. Like, a lot of games. Alright, age 13, Casio EX-5000. This small little camera, a 5-megapixel camera, that got me into the business of creating moments through still images was a pretty important moment of my life. And this picture was a picture that got me into the Canon competition thanks to Malik and Keisheng. And photography eventually led me to Photoshop. At this point, everything changed. Photoshop allowed me to create tons of graphics, and I used it to build my first business, which was printing t-shirts. I saw an opportunity to make Twilight goods to sell to them using Photoshop. And the funny thing was, I didn't do it for the money. I just wanted to sell something that I created, and that to me was was really, really important. Now fast forward to now and why. To be honest, I haven't built big things that people could get value out of it. My first creation, Packful, failed. OTD failed. 10Mags, probably pivoting. I've thought about giving up for real. I'm not earning stable money. There's no real merit. Why shouldn't I give up? Why? And the reason that it's so hard for me to quit Because the beauty of creating is you leave a part of you in your creation, and that part is as pure as it gets. It's a form of expression in the best possible way. It doesn't lie, it's honest, it's you. As much as we want to create value for others, it's also about leaving who you are in what you do. And that is why I couldn't quit. I, I just wouldn't have nowhere to express myself. Literally nowhere. I don't know what the future holds, but what I do know, if I stop and let the voice of others drown me, I know I can never express myself anymore.
MOVING TO JAPAN TO BE A HOUSEHUSBAND?? | You Might Wanna Sit Down For This #Ep237
