December 5, 2023 • 13 mins
Imagine if you could unleash the power of your creativity, using it not just to dream, but to turn those dreams into reality. That's exactly what we're exploring on the latest episode of Observation Station podcast. We're on a mission to demystify the workings of creative minds, marveling at how these geniuses don't just see the world for what it is but redefine what's possible. We're talking Steve Jobs, JK Rowling, and other legends who've defied norms and transformed our world. Our conversation is not just about celebrating their achievements, but about understanding how they made the impossible possible and how you can, too.
Coming to the lighter side of life, we also bring a whimsical exploration of holiday spirits and the motivation they inspire. We're sharing laughs, joy, and a whole lot of inspiration that will have you embracing the holiday spirit and spreading happiness around. The podcast concludes with a look at how creative minds have brought phenomenal changes in our world, from the birth of the iPhone to the rise of giants like Amazon. Remember to share the love (and the podcast) with your friends. We promise you a good time filled with positivity, laughter, and the reminder that with a spark of creativity and an open mind, anything is possible. So tune in, keep the joy flowing, and let's keep making this world a weirder, more wonderful place together.
Coming to the lighter side of life, we also bring a whimsical exploration of holiday spirits and the motivation they inspire. We're sharing laughs, joy, and a whole lot of inspiration that will have you embracing the holiday spirit and spreading happiness around. The podcast concludes with a look at how creative minds have brought phenomenal changes in our world, from the birth of the iPhone to the rise of giants like Amazon. Remember to share the love (and the podcast) with your friends. We promise you a good time filled with positivity, laughter, and the reminder that with a spark of creativity and an open mind, anything is possible. So tune in, keep the joy flowing, and let's keep making this world a weirder, more wonderful place together.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Do you ever lift your head up from your phone, look
around and think to yourself myGod, everything is weird.
Well, we do a lot.
This is the Observation Station, a unique, entertaining and
hilarious podcast.
(00:22):
If we observe it, we talk aboutit.
Anything and everything,anything and everything.
Let's get weird and let's havesome fun.
This is the Observation Stationand now your host, tommy
Heights.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Hey there, listeners, welcome back to the Observation
Station.
I'm Tommy Heights, and todaywe're diving into the
fascinating and oftenunpredictable world of creative
minds.
We're talking about thegeniuses and visionaries who see
the world not for what it is,but for what it could be.
Fasten your seatbelts, ladiesand gentlemen.
We're about to embark on ajourney into the minds that
(01:09):
innovate the world, inspire andturn impossibilities into
realities.
Well, when we think aboutcreativity, big names come to
mind, like Steve Jobs with hissleek Apple designs, or JK
Rowling, who whisked us away inthe magical world of Harry
Potter.
These are the people who didn'tjust think outside the box,
(01:33):
they redefined the box.
Today, we're not justcelebrating their achievements,
but also diving into how theirminds work.
What makes them tick?
Let's find out, first up, whatis creativity?
It's like a superpower toconnect dots that others can't
even see.
For example, if someone'scolorblind and you see the
(01:54):
rainbow, they might just seeblack and white.
It's about inventing,experimenting, growing, taking
risks, breaking rules, makingmistakes, having fun, doing it
all the whole time.
As Maya Angelou famously said,you can't use up creativity.
The more you use, the more youhave, and that's the beauty of
(02:17):
it it's limitless.
So take it onto yourself to saythat this world now, with the
internet, can help you becomeanything that you want to be.
There is no way of saying Ican't do this, I can't do this.
Start getting resourceful.
Stop having it where you say Ican't do this, this, this.
(02:38):
Stop with the shit.
You can do what you want.
You have the internet, you gotYouTube, you got chat, gpt.
You have everything out thereto tell you this is how to do it
.
One, two, three, four.
And if you say you don't havetime to read books, then I don't
know what to do with you.
Let's not forget aboutcollaboration between creative
(02:58):
minds.
The best ideas come off ofbouncing thoughts, brainstorming
, so that your mind is on acreative mode, of trying to
muster up new ways of thinkingand firing off certain synapses.
The famous example is SteveJobs and Steve Wozniak, or Woz.
(03:19):
This is the duo that startedApple and it's a testament to
the power of collaboration.
We're talking about a trilliondollar company.
Don't be afraid to share yourideas and build on others.
That's where the magic happens.
Anybody that goes and says whatan iPhone is to somebody I mean
I say 100 years ago, becausethat's always a good just
(03:41):
everyone says well, it doesn'teven matter if it's 100 years
ago.
We didn't even have cell phonesin the 80s or something.
But I'm just trying to give itlike an extreme example.
If you went 100 years ago andtold these people what a phone,
that was a cell phone orsomething like that.
First off, cell phone is noteven a concept to these people.
Though the explanation to thesepeople that don't understand
(04:07):
what a cell phone is is that youtake a metal piece, a plastic
piece, solder it together andthat thing can do whatever you
want.
It's like ordering food.
Internet.
What's internet?
So the world has come so farfrom having it where you're just
driving a horse and then youhave a car, then you have a
(04:28):
plane.
It's like the whole time,creative minds had to keep going
.
If we didn't have people likeElon Musk to have Tesla, spacex,
all these different things,jeff Bezos, amazon let's figure
out some other people I mean youcould say Henry Ford so much
(04:50):
has been given to us by thepeople that have just pushed the
limit, beyond even belief, ofwhat is possible.
So when some of these peoplesay, oh, I can't believe there's
billionaires, look at what thehell they created for us.
These people make our lives somuch easier.
And then you know, with Amazonor things like that, people that
don't understand taxes say oh,these companies, they've never
(05:13):
turned a profit.
Let's see here, if you reallyare that smart about taxes which
I know you're not, becausethat's why you're spewing this
garbage why would a companyfavorably not want to turn a
profit on paper when they dotheir taxes?
Hmm, let's see, duh, you knowthese people have to wonder why
(05:34):
is it that wealthy people don'tpay taxes?
Because they actually are smart, know how to use assets and
depreciate them.
Now, look, I'm not a CPA here.
Go to your CPA.
But there's small things of howto create from the dust on the
wind.
Basically, for you to beresourceful is where two sticks
(05:56):
can create a fire.
It can create whatever youwanted to do if your mind works
hard enough.
I know that's an extremeexample.
Everybody had to start fromsomewhere, even though maybe
your inventions, like ThomasEdison, where people said why do
you quit just doing what you'redoing?
All this junk doesn't even work.
(06:16):
You've done this a thousandtimes.
Why do you keep doing this ifevery time you just keep failing
?
You know it's kind of funny.
He says with his curiosity, askquestions and you seek the
answers.
You gotta keep the openness tolearning.
I mean, remember, creativitythrives on knowledge.
(06:36):
You give yourself permission toexplore.
Fail, try again.
So Thomas Edison said I havenot failed, I've just found
10,000 ways that won't work.
And that's the spirit of a truecreative mind.
With the lights that are inyour house right now, thomas
Edison was the guy who helpedyou do that, where you'd be
using a candle.
(06:57):
I mean, look at all the thingswe've been given in our life
just by people saying, hey, letme make it where the world will
make a better place out of theinventions that I give to them
the internet.
I don't know who really createdthe internet, but that's
another thing.
That just explaining theinternet to people, it's like
(07:17):
it's unbelievable.
Even to this day I cannotbelieve that we have the
internet Every single day.
I just pinch myself to saythere's no way.
I remember when I was a kidwith dial up, to think man, this
is the move.
Here.
You have a AOL where you gotmail.
Now we have it where you'retexting an XYZ, just texting.
(07:39):
Even when I was a kid I had aNokia.
Every single text you had tohit the keypad three, four times
for K, four times for anexclamation point, whatever it
is.
Now you're cracking text hereusing voice notes.
I can't believe how far we'vecome.
So the whole thing is to bebold.
(08:02):
Tony Robbins always is talkingabout the most resourceful
people will be the ones thatcome out on top.
There's nothing that's moretrue than that.
When you live in a first worldcountry like the United States,
we have everything.
Even if you fall ass backwards,you still have ways to go back
because the government is thereto help you.
When you go to a third worldcountry, people think, oh well,
(08:25):
I'm gonna have it where I havethe same luxuries in the United
States.
Saying it, this is like yourfirst time traveling outside of
the United States or you're usedto going to first world
countries.
Whatever it is the minds thatcome out of the impoverished
countries, all these differentpeople that make it into the pro
(08:47):
leagues of sports and differentways of making money like
starting companies and whatnot.
These are resourceful people.
You look at the immigrants that, just like I'm from El Salvador
in lineage, because my motherleft during the war.
These are people, a lot of them.
(09:08):
When they come from war tornbackgrounds or are forced to
leave.
That is when you have it, wherethe fire comes out of the
person like ashes from, like aphoenix rising from the ashes.
This is where you know I have aprivilege of coming from the
United States, living a goodlife, just like a lot of people
do, when I can sit here in airconditioning and say all this
(09:31):
nice stuff.
Everybody doesn't have the sameprivilege as I do, and the whole
thing is when the nose hits thegrindstone to say I don't have
a choice to do.
This choice or that choice needto get resourceful.
How can I get a mentor,somebody to bounce some ideas
(09:51):
off of them so that you havesomebody to say, okay, I need a
second opinion on this way ofthinking, so that somebody that
has been successful in thisfield can help me out by giving
a perspective as a professional.
Hopefully you're consultingwith professionals.
If your mentor is, you know, inand out of jail, maybe that's
not a good mentor.
(10:12):
Not saying that.
That's how you know people haveit.
All the time you have to assesswho am I asking Sometimes when
people say, oh man, that's tooexpensive, that's too this,
that's too that, that's too this, why would you ever pay for
that.
Hmm, well, let's see thisperson's mind.
Everything is a lack.
I will never have enough money.
Only the wealthy people arecrooks, because there's no other
(10:36):
way to make that kind of money.
How are you gonna do goodthings in this world if
everything is a negative, everysingle thing?
Now I just wanna have it wheresomebody is creative enough,
where I know Elon was having it,where the boring tunnel how
it's going to supposedlyalleviate traffic?
We need something like that inSouth Florida because the
(10:59):
traffic out here is terrible.
I mean sometimes to get off ofan exit two, three miles, the
GPS will show 2.5 miles, 30minutes.
I don't even know how we'vecome to this point in our lives
where there's this much trafficin South Florida.
When I first moved here in 2015, it was not even nearly as
(11:20):
close with the whole world.
It feels like.
I know it's in season now too.
But please, creative minds, ifyou hear the observation and
you're a listener and you'reobserving out there the traffic,
please come, try to do someplanning.
Help South Florida out, make iteasier for everybody that comes
and visits, also for springbreak, holidays, whatever.
(11:43):
It is okay.
So that's a wrap for today'sadventure into the minds of the
creative people in the world,but don't go too far.
Next episode we're getting intothe festive spirit.
It's December.
Right now we're coming in withan episode celebrating the
(12:03):
holidays.
We'll explore unique traditionsfrom around the world, share
some stories, maybe even spillsome secrets on how to make your
holiday celebrations extraspecial.
So tune in for a dose ofholiday cheer, tommy style.
All right guys, thanks forjoining Again.
(12:23):
I am glad to have everybodythat listens to the observation
station, each person thatlistens.
It really just gives me moremotivation to pop out these
episodes, that I can get betterand better each day, because my
mind is going to be as creativeas the people I talk to on these
episodes.
So, all right guys, well,holiday spirits, bring them next
(12:45):
time you listen in, so I'llhave it where I gotta have, that
cheery spirit.
So, all right guys, take iteasy.
Stay safe, keep the smilesgoing, brainstorm, do what you
need to do and when you come upwith that trillion dollar
invention, make sure that youhad the inspiration from the
observation station.
Don't forget your boy teammoney.
All right, take it easy.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You've been listening to the observation station.
We find everyday life andeveryday situations hilarious.
We hope you've enjoyed the show.
We know we had a blast.
Make sure to like, rate andreview, and be sure to tell a
friend about the show.
That would help too.
See you next time on theobservation station.
Do you ever lift your head up from your phone, look
around and think to yourself myGod, everything is weird.
Well, we do a lot.
This is the Observation Station, a unique, entertaining and
hilarious podcast.
(00:22):
If we observe it, we talk aboutit.
Anything and everything,anything and everything.
Let's get weird and let's havesome fun.
This is the Observation Stationand now your host, tommy
Heights.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Hey there, listeners, welcome back to the Observation
Station.
I'm Tommy Heights, and todaywe're diving into the
fascinating and oftenunpredictable world of creative
minds.
We're talking about thegeniuses and visionaries who see
the world not for what it is,but for what it could be.
Fasten your seatbelts, ladiesand gentlemen.
We're about to embark on ajourney into the minds that
(01:09):
innovate the world, inspire andturn impossibilities into
realities.
Well, when we think aboutcreativity, big names come to
mind, like Steve Jobs with hissleek Apple designs, or JK
Rowling, who whisked us away inthe magical world of Harry
Potter.
These are the people who didn'tjust think outside the box,
(01:33):
they redefined the box.
Today, we're not justcelebrating their achievements,
but also diving into how theirminds work.
What makes them tick?
Let's find out, first up, whatis creativity?
It's like a superpower toconnect dots that others can't
even see.
For example, if someone'scolorblind and you see the
(01:54):
rainbow, they might just seeblack and white.
It's about inventing,experimenting, growing, taking
risks, breaking rules, makingmistakes, having fun, doing it
all the whole time.
As Maya Angelou famously said,you can't use up creativity.
The more you use, the more youhave, and that's the beauty of
(02:17):
it it's limitless.
So take it onto yourself to saythat this world now, with the
internet, can help you becomeanything that you want to be.
There is no way of saying Ican't do this, I can't do this.
Start getting resourceful.
Stop having it where you say Ican't do this, this, this.
(02:38):
Stop with the shit.
You can do what you want.
You have the internet, you gotYouTube, you got chat, gpt.
You have everything out thereto tell you this is how to do it
.
One, two, three, four.
And if you say you don't havetime to read books, then I don't
know what to do with you.
Let's not forget aboutcollaboration between creative
(02:58):
minds.
The best ideas come off ofbouncing thoughts, brainstorming
, so that your mind is on acreative mode, of trying to
muster up new ways of thinkingand firing off certain synapses.
The famous example is SteveJobs and Steve Wozniak, or Woz.
(03:19):
This is the duo that startedApple and it's a testament to
the power of collaboration.
We're talking about a trilliondollar company.
Don't be afraid to share yourideas and build on others.
That's where the magic happens.
Anybody that goes and says whatan iPhone is to somebody I mean
I say 100 years ago, becausethat's always a good just
(03:41):
everyone says well, it doesn'teven matter if it's 100 years
ago.
We didn't even have cell phonesin the 80s or something.
But I'm just trying to give itlike an extreme example.
If you went 100 years ago andtold these people what a phone,
that was a cell phone orsomething like that.
First off, cell phone is noteven a concept to these people.
Though the explanation to thesepeople that don't understand
(04:07):
what a cell phone is is that youtake a metal piece, a plastic
piece, solder it together andthat thing can do whatever you
want.
It's like ordering food.
Internet.
What's internet?
So the world has come so farfrom having it where you're just
driving a horse and then youhave a car, then you have a
(04:28):
plane.
It's like the whole time,creative minds had to keep going
.
If we didn't have people likeElon Musk to have Tesla, spacex,
all these different things,jeff Bezos, amazon let's figure
out some other people I mean youcould say Henry Ford so much
(04:50):
has been given to us by thepeople that have just pushed the
limit, beyond even belief, ofwhat is possible.
So when some of these peoplesay, oh, I can't believe there's
billionaires, look at what thehell they created for us.
These people make our lives somuch easier.
And then you know, with Amazonor things like that, people that
don't understand taxes say oh,these companies, they've never
(05:13):
turned a profit.
Let's see here, if you reallyare that smart about taxes which
I know you're not, becausethat's why you're spewing this
garbage why would a companyfavorably not want to turn a
profit on paper when they dotheir taxes?
Hmm, let's see, duh, you knowthese people have to wonder why
(05:34):
is it that wealthy people don'tpay taxes?
Because they actually are smart, know how to use assets and
depreciate them.
Now, look, I'm not a CPA here.
Go to your CPA.
But there's small things of howto create from the dust on the
wind.
Basically, for you to beresourceful is where two sticks
(05:56):
can create a fire.
It can create whatever youwanted to do if your mind works
hard enough.
I know that's an extremeexample.
Everybody had to start fromsomewhere, even though maybe
your inventions, like ThomasEdison, where people said why do
you quit just doing what you'redoing?
All this junk doesn't even work.
(06:16):
You've done this a thousandtimes.
Why do you keep doing this ifevery time you just keep failing
?
You know it's kind of funny.
He says with his curiosity, askquestions and you seek the
answers.
You gotta keep the openness tolearning.
I mean, remember, creativitythrives on knowledge.
(06:36):
You give yourself permission toexplore.
Fail, try again.
So Thomas Edison said I havenot failed, I've just found
10,000 ways that won't work.
And that's the spirit of a truecreative mind.
With the lights that are inyour house right now, thomas
Edison was the guy who helpedyou do that, where you'd be
using a candle.
(06:57):
I mean, look at all the thingswe've been given in our life
just by people saying, hey, letme make it where the world will
make a better place out of theinventions that I give to them
the internet.
I don't know who really createdthe internet, but that's
another thing.
That just explaining theinternet to people, it's like
(07:17):
it's unbelievable.
Even to this day I cannotbelieve that we have the
internet Every single day.
I just pinch myself to saythere's no way.
I remember when I was a kidwith dial up, to think man, this
is the move.
Here.
You have a AOL where you gotmail.
Now we have it where you'retexting an XYZ, just texting.
(07:39):
Even when I was a kid I had aNokia.
Every single text you had tohit the keypad three, four times
for K, four times for anexclamation point, whatever it
is.
Now you're cracking text hereusing voice notes.
I can't believe how far we'vecome.
So the whole thing is to bebold.
(08:02):
Tony Robbins always is talkingabout the most resourceful
people will be the ones thatcome out on top.
There's nothing that's moretrue than that.
When you live in a first worldcountry like the United States,
we have everything.
Even if you fall ass backwards,you still have ways to go back
because the government is thereto help you.
When you go to a third worldcountry, people think, oh well,
(08:25):
I'm gonna have it where I havethe same luxuries in the United
States.
Saying it, this is like yourfirst time traveling outside of
the United States or you're usedto going to first world
countries.
Whatever it is the minds thatcome out of the impoverished
countries, all these differentpeople that make it into the pro
(08:47):
leagues of sports and differentways of making money like
starting companies and whatnot.
These are resourceful people.
You look at the immigrants that, just like I'm from El Salvador
in lineage, because my motherleft during the war.
These are people, a lot of them.
(09:08):
When they come from war tornbackgrounds or are forced to
leave.
That is when you have it, wherethe fire comes out of the
person like ashes from, like aphoenix rising from the ashes.
This is where you know I have aprivilege of coming from the
United States, living a goodlife, just like a lot of people
do, when I can sit here in airconditioning and say all this
(09:31):
nice stuff.
Everybody doesn't have the sameprivilege as I do, and the whole
thing is when the nose hits thegrindstone to say I don't have
a choice to do.
This choice or that choice needto get resourceful.
How can I get a mentor,somebody to bounce some ideas
(09:51):
off of them so that you havesomebody to say, okay, I need a
second opinion on this way ofthinking, so that somebody that
has been successful in thisfield can help me out by giving
a perspective as a professional.
Hopefully you're consultingwith professionals.
If your mentor is, you know, inand out of jail, maybe that's
not a good mentor.
(10:12):
Not saying that.
That's how you know people haveit.
All the time you have to assesswho am I asking Sometimes when
people say, oh man, that's tooexpensive, that's too this,
that's too that, that's too this, why would you ever pay for
that.
Hmm, well, let's see thisperson's mind.
Everything is a lack.
I will never have enough money.
Only the wealthy people arecrooks, because there's no other
(10:36):
way to make that kind of money.
How are you gonna do goodthings in this world if
everything is a negative, everysingle thing?
Now I just wanna have it wheresomebody is creative enough,
where I know Elon was having it,where the boring tunnel how
it's going to supposedlyalleviate traffic?
We need something like that inSouth Florida because the
(10:59):
traffic out here is terrible.
I mean sometimes to get off ofan exit two, three miles, the
GPS will show 2.5 miles, 30minutes.
I don't even know how we'vecome to this point in our lives
where there's this much trafficin South Florida.
When I first moved here in 2015, it was not even nearly as
(11:20):
close with the whole world.
It feels like.
I know it's in season now too.
But please, creative minds, ifyou hear the observation and
you're a listener and you'reobserving out there the traffic,
please come, try to do someplanning.
Help South Florida out, make iteasier for everybody that comes
and visits, also for springbreak, holidays, whatever.
(11:43):
It is okay.
So that's a wrap for today'sadventure into the minds of the
creative people in the world,but don't go too far.
Next episode we're getting intothe festive spirit.
It's December.
Right now we're coming in withan episode celebrating the
(12:03):
holidays.
We'll explore unique traditionsfrom around the world, share
some stories, maybe even spillsome secrets on how to make your
holiday celebrations extraspecial.
So tune in for a dose ofholiday cheer, tommy style.
All right guys, thanks forjoining Again.
(12:23):
I am glad to have everybodythat listens to the observation
station, each person thatlistens.
It really just gives me moremotivation to pop out these
episodes, that I can get betterand better each day, because my
mind is going to be as creativeas the people I talk to on these
episodes.
So, all right guys, well,holiday spirits, bring them next
(12:45):
time you listen in, so I'llhave it where I gotta have, that
cheery spirit.
So, all right guys, take iteasy.
Stay safe, keep the smilesgoing, brainstorm, do what you
need to do and when you come upwith that trillion dollar
invention, make sure that youhad the inspiration from the
observation station.
Don't forget your boy teammoney.
All right, take it easy.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You've been listening to the observation station.
We find everyday life andeveryday situations hilarious.
We hope you've enjoyed the show.
We know we had a blast.
Make sure to like, rate andreview, and be sure to tell a
friend about the show.
That would help too.
See you next time on theobservation station.
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