Fight For It

My name is Scott Papek, and I believe a strength for me is my creative thinking. I also think a challenge for me is my creative thinking.   For me, creativity used to come with lots of complexity. The creative idea surfaces, and then all of a sudden, my mind is obsessing and trying to take my creative thought from the idea and map it on how I can make it the best view in the world. Don’t get me wrong, I love deep-thinking creativity, but I would take the idea and complicate it in the past. Let’s say I had two pretty good ideas in a week. I’m consumed now with how to make them work. Then you share it with a few friends, and they offer suggestions, good and bad, which adds more complexity. It’s plain maddening.   To break this mold, I had to get coached up by my business partner Commander Jack Riggins, the greatest leader of people I’ve ever met. I would share an idea, and he would dismantle it so fast. And I’d be like; he just doesn’t get it. He is a master at communication; he knew exactly what he was doing.