| I think almost every stupid invention was called a gamechanger at one point in time.
Remember frork? It was something McDonalds came up with to promote their new line of burgers a few years back. It was basically a fork, except its prongs were shaped like fries. McDonalds said it's meant for you to pick up all the delicious bits that fall out of the new burgers, or something like that.
Totally game-changing. Except, there already was a tool for that. The regular fork would work just fine for that purpose, and so would, I don't know, a French fry if you really were in a bind.
Pet rocks... don't get me started on those. The idea was actually brilliant, and my guess is even a bit ironic. But then a whole ton of people started to take that seriously. There are forums dedicated to these things, and a lot of people say that it's a game-changing concept, because rocks don't require care, feeding, you don't have to take them to a vet, and so on and so forth.
Or, let's look at something really recent.
There's a hydrogen fuel cell charger, which sounds super fancy and all, but the math doesn't quite work out - it costs $140 upfront and $40 for each additional cartridge. Yet... people still call it game changing.
On the other hand, you have really useful inventions, that were legitimate gamechangers...
... And they almost didn't see the light of day.
When Bell got the patent for the telephone and set about selling his invention, he approached Western Union, and offered them rights to his patent. The company bigwigs said no, and that "[the device] is hardly more than a toy".
Television was called a "commercial and financial impossibility", and film producer Darryl Zanuck stated, in 1946, that "people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night".
And Wilbur Wright, two years before successfully flying the world's first powered aircraft over Kitty Hawk, NC, said, "Man will not fly for 50 years".
The bottom line is this.
It's often hard to tell whether something is a game-changer... or just stupid.
Yet, there's something that true game-changers have in common.
People who believe in these inventions. People who are not just hyping up things for the sake of it, but people with genuine belief.
I'll send you an email about one of those things soon.
I really believe in it. And to me, that makes it a game-changer.
To Your Success, Paul Hanson
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