Steve Wozniak

I mean, those who provide the funding and tools and environment are often perceived as taking the credit for inventions.

If you're a young inventor who wants to change the world, a corporate environment is the wrong place for you.

You're going to be best able to design revolutionary products and features if you're working on your own, not a committee, not a team.

That means you're probably going to have to do what I did, to do your projects as moon lighting with limited money and limited resources.

But man, it'll be worth it in the end.

It'll be worth it if there's really, truly what you want to do, invent things.

If you want to invent things that can change the world and not just work at a corporation, working on other people's inventions, you're going to have to work on your own projects.

When you're working as your own boss, making decisions about what you're going to build and how you're going to go about it, making trade-offs as to features and qualities, it becomes part of you, like a child you love and you want to support.

You have huge motivation to create the best possible inventions, and you care about them with a passion you could never feel about an invention someone else ordered you to come up with.

and if you don't enjoy working on stuff for yourself with your own money and your own resources after work if you have to then you definitely shouldn't be doing it it's so easy to doubt yourself and it's especially easy to doubt yourself when what you're working on is at odds with everyone else in the world who thinks they know the right way to do things

Sometimes you can't prove whether you're right or wrong.

Only time can tell that.

But if you believe in your own power to objectively reason, that's a key to happiness and a key to confidence.

Another key I found to happiness was to realize that I didn't have to disagree with someone and let it get all intense.

If you believe in your own power to reason, you can just relax.

You don't have to feel the pressure.

to set out and convince anyone.

So don't sweat it.

You have to trust your own designs, your own intuition, and your own understanding of what your invention needs to be.

Thank you for listening and learning with me.