Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It Audiobook (Free)

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“An essential how-to for creativity.” —Nick Offerman

Adam Savage—celebrity of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters and probably one of the most beloved figures in technology and technology—shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding motivation to following through and successfully producing your idea possible.

Every Tool’s a Hammer is a chronicle of my entire life as a manufacturer. It’s an exploration of earning and of my own effective obsessions, but it’s also a permission slip of kinds from about Every Tool’s a Hammer: Lifestyle Is What You Make It me to you. Permission to seize hold of the things you’re thinking about, that fascinate you, and to dive deeper into them to find where they business lead you.

Through stories from forty-plus years of earning and molding, building and break­ing, along with the lessons We learned on the way, this book is intended to be a toolbox of problem solving, complete with a shop’s worth of notes about the various tools, techniques, and textiles that I take advantage of generally. Things like: In Every Tool There’s a Hammer—don’t wait around until everything is perfect to begin with a project, and in the event that you don’t have the exact right tool for an activity, just make use of whatever’s handy; Increase Your Loose Tolerance—making is definitely messy and filled with screwups, but that’s okay, as creativity is usually a path with twists and transforms and not a straight line to be found; Make use of More Cooling Liquid—it prolongs the life span of blades and pieces, and it helps prevent tool failing, but beyond that it’s a reminder to decelerate and decrease the fric­tion in your work and romantic relationships; Screw Before You Glue—mechanised fasteners enable you to transformation and alter a task while glue is definitely forever but occasionally you just need the right glue, therefore i dig into those will do the job with minimal harm and best effects.

This toolbox also contains lessons from a great many other incredible makers and creators, including: Jamie Hyneman, Nick Offerman, Pixar director Andrew Stanton, Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro, artist Tom Sachs, and chef Traci Des Jardins. And if everything goes well, we will hopefully save you several mistakes (and perhaps fingers) as well as help you convert your curiosities into masterpieces.

I hope this publication inspires you to construct, produce, invent, explore, and—the majority of all—enjoy the thrills of being a creator.