Widgets are a fictitious gadgets that professors used in Economics classes. Simply (or more simply stated) they’re just units of retail.
I once had a real knack and enthusiasm for brainstorming new widgets that did new things. Oh it occupied a high percentage of my day, dreaming of new and out of the norm widgets people wouldn’t even know they needed. But once they say the improvement int the new widget’s productivity, they quickly came around.
Now the makers of the older widgets didn’t like this one bit. They’d reason who are these people to intrude and jeopardize our historical success? So they got together and started brainstorming a plan. Now you’d a productive plan would be to create a newer and better widget but no. They weren’t interested in doing that. Too much work, plus you had to somewhat creatively invested. Most weren’t. So they took a completely strategy to destroy and bad mouth the new improved widget, which was actually newer and better.
Philosophical differences in the true formatting of a widget ensued.
That’s not a widget. It doesn’t even stack up to the old faithful version our clientele is accustomed to.
But they were wrong. The new widget was significantly better in all aspects. Power, reliability, and overall customer satisfaction. Their sales increased with every complaint. Out with old. In with the new and approved.
A few years later it became apparent the old standby manufacturers were fed up and started a slander campaign and my widget. It was pretty caddy and rude. I was obvious I would never be accepted into their world and would always looking at them from outside. Well this was upsetting to me. I wasn’t motivated by stealing profits or clients from other widget supply companies. All I wanted to do was introduce a newer way to widget success. (In fact my product was better, but I kept it clean and clamped my mouth shut.)
This silent battle went on for years. Was never really included in the trade fairs and exhibitions. If I was, my presence was greeted with a quite obvious scowl.
So I eventually got out of the widget business that I really did have quite a passion for, and watched people. with less quality product lines return to their cherished protected success. I also saw a trend in widgetry, copying some of my trademark advantages and claiming them to be their own. I gotta say, That one hurt. There’s a saying: creativity is free. So why would you shoplift a free item?
It took quite a bit of time. My brain was still in creative mode, dreaming about other such widgets that could have favorable impact on customers. But by then, the dye was cast.
Don’t entertain that one. He’s trouble. We want a normalcy we can control, not one we have to play catch up with.
I ditched my widget dreams reluctantly, mainly because their potential was ruined by people who never questioned their legitimacy. It was almost as they were selling themselves and not a product.
So once I moved through my emotional demise, I knew I had potential to excel in a newer midget manufacturing industry. So I did. I’m doing it right this second,. In this industry, people don’t hav the same hang ups as presenting a fresh voice is the magic key to the castle. I still harbor resentment that I imagine may come across as arrogance and I don’t care. I’d like to meet these sleazy heathens someday and show them how their inability to accept to accept new things and growth will entually kill their business as well.
I’ll be waiting on the sidelines and while I’m not at all a person of vengeance, I aspire to the tooth for the tooth truth. Yet I will always think these widget designers are faking it and getting away without putting in the effort. It’s easy to borrow and take someone’s ideal and claim it for your own. But man, don’t feel like a real pile of poop doing it? (well you should)
Thoughts from Woody Allen:
Fear of failure is what holds most people back. They don’t dare to achieve their dreams because of how they might look. They’re insecure.
Failure is inevitable and so is being mocked and ridiculed by those with lesser goals and smaller minds.
Thoughts from Jeff Namian:
Imitation is not at all flattering. It’s just proof of how lazy and unmotivated you are.