So far on my entrepreneurial journey, I’ve been doing a lot of contract manufacturing for every day people. I’ve designed things for their own entrepreneurial ventures, fixes for everyday products, prototypes for ideas they had to solve their own problems, and everything in between. I also work at a foam fabrication contract manufacturing company. So I do the same thing at my day job. The work is different. The work is unique. And the work is beautiful.
The beauty in it, though incredibly hard, lies in the making physical what was once thought. Even saying that makes it seem trivial, simple. There is so much complexity in it.
Humans have the incredible capacity to create things from nothing. To begin with a mere scent, a breath, of an idea lasting only moments. If one happens to catch it and find it, puts it down and process it, then the idea has a chance to become alive. This idea and thought becomes human when we make it so. As a creator, being given a “prompt” such as a customer request for a new 3D printed creation, takes on a very different form when I take it on. My humanness makes it human. This applies to all creators. In fact it applies to all human tasks regardless of whether we call them creative tasks.
I took on another cool project for a cool customer. I was asked to price the project, and I gave an amount that I thought was fair for them. Only thing is – fair isn’t necessarily fair. The true cost of my engineering time, the design development, the prototyping, the customer service, and shipping all amount to a value many wouldn’t see as “worth it.”
But it made me think about why I create, and the nature of what I create. With a project such as this one and others, it is more than a replacement part or a simple fix. What someone is receiving is personal product design and development. Firms invest in multiple designers, engineers, and countless other valuable personnel and experience to produce something new. What you’re getting is a one-of-a-kind piece of the creator themselves. It doesn’t exist in the world in its current form. And that’s a powerful perspective.
Now why divinity? I think the ultimate meaning of life is to channel our gifts, our passions, our love, our experiences, and our spiritual and creative energies to create newness and good things in this world. Regardless of your religious affiliations, the Divine fulfills this purpose. We are co-creators with God. We are made in the image of God and the purpose of God is creation. So why is that concept for foreign and hard to accept. How do we bring one with the Divine?
Remaining attuned to thoughts and ideas, bringing them to life, sharing them, and inspiring the same in others is a divine fulfillment of our purpose. Again; that’s my philosophy. I think we’re all more connected than we think.
Creators and Artists, I appreciate you.