How To Come Up With Good Ideas | Mark Rober | TEDxYouth@ColumbiaSC

He started a wearable technology company called Digital Dudz that combined smartphones playing a video with clothing. Mark left NASA to grow the business for 2 years and after selling Digital Dudz to a company in the UK, he has recently decided to return to his Engineering roots.

Mark Rober is a YouTuber and former NASA Engineer turned Inventor/Entrepreneur. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from BYU and Masters from USC. He worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 9 years, 7 of which were spent working on the Curiosity Rover which is now on Mars. In 2011, he uploaded his Halloween costume to YouTube that featured 2 iPads using a FaceTime chat so it looked like he had a hole in his body. The video went viral overnight with 3M views and he decided to start posting monthly videos about creativity, science and design and now has over 77M total views and 350k subscribers.

[JaredOwen]

Mark Rober is probably my favorite youtuber. This talk was great - thank you!

[IanBarnard]

The final 3 points are (if you missed them):
1. Stay Curious
2. Work Hard
3. Get Lucky

[Dman]

That head designer at apple is so good that he can make the exact same design 5 years in a row.

[sophiakarp]

mark rober: i have about 100k subscribers now

me from the future: wow that’s cute

[roytang]

if creativity is a muscle, school has cut my tendons

[JonesJr]

How to get lucky - Increase the amount of times you flip the coin. Increase the amount of time you get up and keep trying.

[banana_supremacy]

Mark is the reason I have continued writing my book. Every, and I mean EVERY time I think about stopping when I'm writing, every time I doubt, Mark Rober comes up in my feed, my notifications, what have you. And every time, I keep writing. Because my idea is good enough, it is creative enough, Ya, sure maybe it's been done before, but I haven't written it yet. And maybe my version is the one the world needs. If it fails, if it flops, then too bad because I refuse to give up on this just yet.

[lieutenantdiamond]

It's crazy to see how much more confidence he has now

[droam]

6:42 - "Headphone port? Why is that there?" - Jony Ive

[budabead]

190K subscribers... has grown into 18.3M as of today... all stems from the idea that he "enjoyed people sharing his success"
amazing... what a dude - thanks for all the entertainment and teaching Mark!

[nothernames]

What a great and inspiring presentation. Would also like to drop of my favorite quotes of all time: "Luck is the residue of hard work" - Branch Rickey

[qwafochannel]

This guy is awesome. It as if he really is a prodigy of science. I wonder if he ended the test after he lost the snake.

[honestburgler]

For creativity there is a quote that helps me "you can't get something from nothing"
Or
"There are no original ideas"

[jackle]

Too bad the modern average academic system diminishes creativity....

[michaelstaton]

I cannot believe that this crowd dint clap after the infrared microwave camera ..

[MaxxerG]

When I find myself clicking the Like button and the first ad didn’t even finish, and that’s how I like Mark Rober. My favorite YouTuber of all time. The only youtuber I let my kids watch.

[sterling]

I'm impressed that he actually agrees with the notion that to succeed you need to have a little bit of luck.

[therandomguy]

iv watched this video of a scientist on youtuber that had mark in it the next video to watch was marks video and so on wait... this guy was in NASA then made a youtube video that went viral and later on he left NASA to become a full time youtuber... AWESOME

[happyconstructor]

That Alexandria thing, as far as I know, made the Library of Alexandria, which I think was supposed to hold all knowledge of the ancient world.
How do I know this? “Alexa, what are you named after”

[alexanderl]

Anyone else here from MARK ROBER? Whoo!