I started reading the book "Never Leave Well Enough Alone" by Raymond Loewy. He is the first self-proclaimed industrial designer. Raymond moved to the US from France in the early 1900s to pursue his dreams and aspirations.
What I love about Raymond and his accounts moving through life is that he always thought something could be better. Granted everyone did not always see eye-to-eye with him and he even got fired once because of it. His style is simple, clean, elegant, and by today's standards would be considered minimal.
I'm only about a third of the way through the book but the people he becomes friends with is amazing. People who are extremely successful in their careers in New York. Through these friendships he gains work experience designing cars, clothes, some printing device among others.
Asking the question why is a great start. Raymond, on the other hand, does something about it. He asks why a car looks a certain way or why is it so ugly? Then he does something about it. I think that is a problem for many of us moving through life. We see a problem and we do ask the question, why?, but then we don't do anything about it. We continually sit back and wait for someone else to do it.
This next week I am going to vow to both ask the question why and then immediately after I'm going to try to do something about it. I'll report back.
The why is important but the follow through is even more.
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