Dennis Teli

The definition of crazy is: In a state of mind that prevents normal perception.

Good crazy is a special bug in the mental software. It’s when risk reward calculations don’t account for conformity.

Like when a young Steve Jobs looked up the biggest mogul in the computer industry in the phone book. He called Bill Hewlett and asked Bill to send him spare parts. For free!

Or when Ingvar Kamprad refused to deal with Swedish suppliers. Instead he went to Poland and came in bad standing with the entire Swedish industry. He didn’t care. His startup was Ikea.

Or when Henry Ford didn’t care about the power of the automobile industry. Henry Ford broke their patents and challenged the biggest name in the industry to race him.

If you are crazy and sometimes feel bad. Don’t. Actually, you should cherish and nurture it.

Great people don’t accomplish great things by thinking average. Great things are accomplished by believing in yourself first, believing that you’re the one who’s meant to make this thing happen.

If you look around, and listen very closely to what extreme achievers say, then you’ll see the small clues that demonstrate their belief system.

You see signs of this in EVERYONE who’s extremely successful. Even if they don’t say it in that way, they will say things like, “I literally feel like I’m creating the world around me.”

you feel like there’s nothing you can’t accomplish. There’s an inner story you tell yourself. And that story is that you’re born to win. You’re born to make things happen.

You develop a belief system that knows you’re brilliant, different, and maybe even destined to change the world. This special sense of destiny evolves into a delusional state of mind.

Extreme Achievers don’t just feel like they’re born to win, they make it so it’s inevitable that they will.

The only difference between successful delusion and crazy people delusion is that successful people are practical about their delusions. Crazy people are delusional about what they think will happen and then they stop their.

It’s not enough to just think you’re going to accomplish something, you have to get extremely practical about how you’re going to accomplish it.

You should have no desire to be average. You should have no desire to think and act like everyone else if you want to accomplish great things.

No matter how many people make fun of your insane level of belief, you realize that they’re just making fun of it because they don’t have that belief in themselves.

Successful people are delusional because that’s what makes them great.

Crazy people make great bets. A good bet is one where you can win more than you can lose.

They create new boxes for normal people to think inside of. it is as “crazy” and mind blowing as making something that already exist better. By thinking differently, crazy people like kids use the power of their imagination to power their way to success.

They are too foolish to be scared. When crazy people set goals for themselves, they aren’t concerned with the “what if” possibility of failure.

They strive for authenticity. Crazy people develop their own sense of style and paint the portrait of life exactly the way they see it. This ability to be original has seen many crazies achieve success by developing life skills that normal people would call a bad habit or simply absurd.

They have high energy. Crazies however have all the time, passion and energy in the world. They dedicate themselves to a craft and work tirelessly to develop their skills. This intent focus and energy definitely gives them an advantage for success.

They dare to break the rules. Crazies understand that while rules are important, they can be limiting. It is this ability to question authority without disrespect that makes the crazies more likely to be successful.

They invent out of necessity. Their unusual minds help them view the world from a different perspective than normal people.Crazies embody the old adage, “necessity is the mother of all inventions.

They recognize other crazies. The idea of being able to brainstorm with others who think as differently as you do gives you a greater chance of success. Crazy’s challenge one another’s beliefs.

They are always curious. Crazies have the minds of kids, constantly asking why. Their minds are insatiable and they are not afraid to follow the rabbit hole no matter how deep down it goes.

They are like a dog with a bone. Crazy people become obsessed with certain problems and how to solve them. They become so engrossed that no matter how impossible a task supposedly is, they will always find a way.

They don’t label. By not labelling others, crazies are able to surround themselves with an extremely diverse group of talent and unlock the human potential and ability for action.

They challenge the word “no”. They constantly challenge every single person that dares to tell them no.

They listen intently and take notes. Talking too much is what is killing your success. Crazy successful people listen to what others have to say, and then they filter out what is not relevant to their mission.

They take time to chill out. Every successful person I have met spends time scheduling travel to escape the patterns and routines they have become so accustomed to.

They inspire people. The final thing these crazy, insane, passionate, successful people do differently is inspire people. A conversation with them is uplifting and it changes the way you think. They create a feeling inside of you that feels good and makes you want to achieve some significant goal in your own life.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but how well we are understood.

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.

The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize, and glean insights that enable him or her to ‘make the invisible visible.

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

Those who don’t build must burn.

It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people’s lives.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

If you do it right, it will last forever.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation

Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

Design everything on the assumption that people are not heartless or stupid but marvelously capable, given the chance.

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Leave it better than you found it.

There is no such thing as a boring project. There are only boring executions.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

The time it takes to make a decision increases as the number of alternatives increases.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

Practice safe design: Use a concept.

They don’t want quarter-inch bits. They want quarter-inch holes.

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic ‘right-brain’ thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Creativity is only as obscure as your reference.

Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.

Design is so simple. That’s why it’s so complicated.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.

No. I don’t think the Empire had Wookiees in mind when they designed it, Chewie.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.

A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.

Design isn’t crafting a beautiful textured button with breathtaking animation. It’s figuring out if there’s a way to get rid of the button altogether.

I would be happy to learn just half the stuff I already thought I learned

Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.

The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.

As we decrease uncertainty, we give ourselves permission to increase fidelity.

Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Less is more work.

Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

Y’all talk about UX like it’s just another feature. For a user, it literally is the product. Full stop. Everything else is inside baseball

Design and art are independent coordinates that provide their greatest satisfactions when experienced simultaneously.

Here is one of the few effective keys to the design problem: the ability of the designer to recognize as many of the constraints as possible; his willingness and enthusiasm for working within these constraints.

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.

When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration

The soul never thinks without an image.

Do good work for good people

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.