Mark Rober
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It would predict where it would land and then it would move the dartboard in 400 milliseconds.
That's less than a blink of an eye.
And that video took me three years to build that.
And there were a lot of setbacks.
No, there was a lot of moments where it's like, oh, we thought this would work, but it doesn't.
And what I realized is like at no part in any of that was I like,
I'm a failure.
This is the worst.
I want to give up.
It's almost like with each setback, I was more and more determined.
I learned one more way not to do it.
And what I realized is it's like a video game.
I call this the Super Mario effect.
In any video game, there's an objective or a goal.
Like you have to rescue the princess from the castle or get a certain amount of points.
But there's obstacles in that way.
Okay.
There might be pits.
There might be bad guys.
And if you die, you go back to the beginning.