Icarus1138

I hate school and I live in a small city... and I worry that it will be tough to find people with the same interests and I worry about finding people I can trust. With the Youtube idea I felt that I could find a wider audience... maybe there are some other Youtubers who might be interested in collaborating as well. But not being able to get on camera or having a horrible screen presence could be dealbreakers. Maybe I need to move to a bigger city or something.

This is why I was considering starting a Youtube channel to show different concepts and see if I could get some connections or help working with different people. One thing I have learned is that it's difficult to do anything by yourself. It takes way longer. So i am trying to figure out ways for me to network and find like minded people, But I was wondering if there might be better options so I don't possibly give away great ideas. PLUS I am probably the most camera shy person on Earth.. so that's a major issue with Youtube as well.

Interesting idea thanks!

I can see how a lot of people would think this... and some ideas I have this is true.. but many of them are just ideas that people don't think of for some reason. I am someone who has always had ideas like this and then see people do them and they are very successful and people are wowed by them... and a lot of them people still haven't done,,, but I feel like creativity and curiosity is almost a curse because it has prevented me from being able to do mundane things necessary to accomplish things. I also could see how a lot of people WANT to be this guy but I feel like I really am that guy... but also realize a big part of this is because I have aspergers syndrome and have never really had a normal life.. Like for example many people believe Einstein had aspergers and apart from being a genius that's possibly why he was so successful - because he put everything into his work his whole life.

I just found another idea of mine that has made a very successful product. These guys came before me but I promise I hadn't known they did this.. you can see in my post history I was looking for a motherboard that had the CPU mounted on the opposite side of the motherboard so I could make a passive cooling system... These guys did the same thing and it works incredibly well - https://mybroadband.co.za/news/hardware/250623-compulab-launches-kickstarter-campaign-for-fanless-gaming-pc.html All motherboard manufacturers could do this and PCs would be much easier to cool silently... I wonder if these guys patented this and now motherboard makers can't do this?

Interesting idea thanks! I'll look into that. I had seen open source projects but I am not knowledgeable about the legal aspects.

That's true.. like how VHS beat out betamax VCRs.

Great points!

I totally get that... I can see why it would be annoying. For me it's annoying the other way because I see the potential of these different ideas.. but for some reason many people are very skeptical about ideas and their potential. For example when the iPad came out people forget how many vocal critics there were who said tablets were a joke and a waste of time. This is much more common than people would think. It seems like people's natural tendency is to want to shoot ideas down unless they come from someone with an incredible track record like Elon Musk or Steve Jobs.. Gurus

Good ideas thanks!

How can you find people you can trust though because someone could just take the idea themselves.

Part of me feels like giving my ideas out because I think so many of them could make things way cooler and help different fields develop more... but part of me feel slike I would be a fool because I have no money and I could make a lot of money from any one of these ideas. I have been considering making a Youtube channel where I put up different ideas and maybe people will understand how possibly valuable my creativity is or maybe I could develop some contacts that way... but I am totally camera shy.. so doing that is problematic too.

I see what you are saying, this is why I was considering getting into Industrial Design.. though I don't even know if this is quite the right thing. But I have all kinds of ideas and some would be considered businesses... but I still don't think I would be good to head a business.

I wonder what is a good way I could meet some people around where I live who could help me develop my ideas and or a business.

If it's the right small product this can work. I tend to have no control over my creativity.. I am not a great problem solver so my creativity doesn't work all the time.. it's like totally random. I feel like I have big highs and lows mentally.. so it's like super creative on one hand but no tools or abilities to capitalize on the ideas.