无用的发明导致该发明者充满热情

西蒙妮·吉尔茨（Simone Giertz）的职业非常不寻常。她是一位无用事物的非常成功的发明者。正如她在TED演讲中说：“进入领域顶部的最简单方法是选择一个很小的田野。”

Giertz喜欢解决日常问题，并创建“无用的”幽默的机器人解决方案。由于她担心公开演讲，她的手倾向于摇晃，因此她设计了一种笨拙且绝对不切实际的发明，以便为她提供水。

During the talk, Giertz showed the audience an email that she sent to her brother in 2007 when she was still in school, “You won’t understand how difficult it is for me to tell you, to confess this…” Giertz explains to the curious crowd that the event leading up to this dramatic email was receiving a B on a math test. She was a great overachiever and put an unnecessary amount of pressure on herself.

在她成功的YouTube频道上，您可以看到许多有关她取笑自己的视频，在此过程中，她似乎度过了愉快的时光。她正在行使创造力，创造最令人难以置信的原始发明，并使世界各地的数百万人笑。

“As much as my machines can seem like simple engineering slapstick, I’ve realized that I have stumbled on something bigger than that," she says. "It’s this expression of joy and humility that often gets lost in engineering, and for me, it was a way to learn about hardware without my performance anxiety getting in the way."

尽管她在YouTube上取得了成功，但人们经常问她是否会建立一些有用的东西，她有一个完美的答案：“我看到的方式，我已经拥有了这份工作，因为我已经建立了这份工作。她永远无法计划。”她告诉观众。

"Instead, it happened just because I was enthusiastic about what I was doing and I was sharing that enthusiasm with other people. To me, there is a true beauty of making useless things because it’s this acknowledgment that you don't always know what the best answer is, and it turns off that voice in your head that tells you that you know exactly how the world works."

显然，Giertz的视频激发了其他人放弃自己的恐惧和期望，并享受自己。她启发了人们提出问题并提出创造性的答案。

“也许牙刷头盔不是答案，但至少您要问这个问题。”

吉尔茨（Giertz）启发了数百万美元，放弃了他们的恐惧，追求自己的激情并与世界分享。我们迫不及待地想看看她下一步提出了什么怪异的发明。

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