Creating Something Complete.

‘There are very few things that we can make on our own.

Most things we do with a lot of help from other people. And most people do a fraction of an activity that goes into something else. And that makes it harder for us to see what we’re doing. It makes it harder for us to see our own contribution to something.

But I think that we need to help that. We need to help people see that they’re contributing to something and what it is that they’re contributing. Employers need to give people the sense of this creation and  doing and contribution and ownership for it.

It’s also the reason why many of us go to all kinds of hobbies. Our hobbies are our outlets for creating something complete. I can do a chair - and even though it takes me two years its a chair that I have done everything from scratch or I can create a drawing and I’ve done everything about the drawing. I think we crave that notion that there is something that we have created.’

- Dan Ariely

Boom. Widget Thinking.