If you want to do something, the question isn’t usually whether or not you can. The question is usually: “How weird are you willing to get to make it work?”
Very few things can be accomplished in a straight line from Point A to Point B. But very few things can’t be accomplished if you’re willing to find that strange and twisting path. The limitation for most people is simply how strange of a path they can imagine.
The stranger the better, when it comes to making it work.
A few decades ago, my father put an addition – a second story – onto my childhood home to make room for my soon-to-arrive baby sister. His goal was to get 3 bedrooms and a bathroom up there. Several architects told him it was impossible, that given the size of the footprint he had to work with, the building codes, and so on, there was simply no way to put 3 bedrooms and a bathroom up there.
Go into that house now, and you’ll find 3 bedrooms and a bathroom up there. They’re all of normal size, too. They’re just configured in just about the strangest way you’d imagine. The rooms themselves are all normal, but the hallway that leads between them is straight out of a carnival funhouse. My father could envision the strange path, so he designed it himself and made it work.
Make it weird to make it work!
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