@ point A wishing I was @ point X
The large shelves chip model was done today! I made some improvements to it that aren't on the full scale prototype, but over all it looks really good... By this weekend all the models will be done! Then I'll post blurry pictures of them all side by side... My next post I'll share my process for making these models, from sketch to model to reveal my low tech approach...
When working on a task that takes a long time (days:weeks:months), it takes a bit of madness to stay on task. I'd say Brain damage but that would not do it justice. During those weeks/months of doing repetitive tasks you think of all the things that maybe you should not be thinking about, our brains (at least some of our brains) have this capacity to multitask, it just wonders off. Where does it go? To all those places you don't want your brain going: to things you forgot (that should have stayed forgotten), to second guessing decisions (that you got right the first time), to other points in our lives (forwards or backwards), or to the end of the current task at hand... The problem with allowing your brain to stray too much is that you loose perspective on what you are trying to accomplish, you become burdened by thought and you loose focus. Repetitive work is dangerous, and should be gotten out of the way or delegated to someone else ASAP.
"Jacob Rabinow, an electrical engineer, uses an interesting mental technique to slow himself down when work on an invention requires more endurance than intuition: “When I have a job that takes a lot of effort, slowly, I pretend I’m in jail. If I’m in jail, time is of no consequence. In other words, if it takes a week to cut this, it’ll take a week. What else have I got to do? I’m going to be here for twenty years. See? This is a kind of mental trick. Otherwise you say, ‘My God, it’s not working,’ and then you make mistakes. My way, you say time is of absolutely no consequence.” " Psychology Today: The Creative Personality
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