56: Michael Cater - Comfortable Being Uncomfortable - Building TEDxInnovation Drive

And I love this and I think maybe there's a parallel and maybe there's not.

I'll stretch it though between 2000 push-ups and the journey to get there and the journey to putting on a TEDx event.

I I did this thing a couple of years ago.

Unfortunately, I ended up having an accident breaking my arm, so I lost it.

But I started day one with one push-up, day two with two push-ups, day three with three push-ups, and kept going.

I think I got to about 100 in the day.

I just kept doing 100 a day after that.

It gets painful after that.

But it was 100 nonstop every single day.

Then I sadly broke my arm and lost that.

I don't know about the push-up itself.

and I'm not going to stretch it too far, but I do think that it's an interesting thing that I didn't know about you, actually, until you just mentioned it then.

But also, I do get the feeling that having taken this task on of organizing a TEDx, and there may be some parallels between that and the 2000 push-up challenge.

I think what

happens in innovation is a lot of times constraints... are good.

And I had constraints being a 98-pound weakling and ended up taking some of those constraints and making them a strength and a core competency.

We had a constraint here in this event early on.

The constraint was 10x location.

That's their rule.

You can't have it.

And so I had phenomenal ideas on what the title should be.

And obviously I used AI.

Tremendous play on words on innovation.

They rejected them all.

They said it has to be TEDx location.

And I love this and I think maybe there's a parallel and maybe there's not.

I'll stretch it though between 2000 push-ups and the journey to get there and the journey to putting on a TEDx event.

I I did this thing a couple of years ago.

Unfortunately, I ended up having an accident breaking my arm, so I lost it.

But I started day one with one push-up, day two with two push-ups, day three with three push-ups, and kept going.

I think I got to about 100 in the day.

I just kept doing 100 a day after that.

It gets painful after that.

But it was 100 nonstop every single day.

Then I sadly broke my arm and lost that.

I don't know about the push-up itself.

and I'm not going to stretch it too far, but I do think that it's an interesting thing that I didn't know about you, actually, until you just mentioned it then.

But also, I do get the feeling that having taken this task on of organizing a TEDx, and there may be some parallels between that and the 2000 push-up challenge.

I think what

happens in innovation is a lot of times constraints... are good.

And I had constraints being a 98-pound weakling and ended up taking some of those constraints and making them a strength and a core competency.

We had a constraint here in this event early on.

The constraint was 10x location.

That's their rule.

You can't have it.

And so I had phenomenal ideas on what the title should be.

And obviously I used AI.

Tremendous play on words on innovation.

They rejected them all.

They said it has to be TEDx location.