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Simone Giertz Quotes
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Simone Giertz
Swedish
Inventor
Born:
Nov 1
,
1990
Good
Just
Me
People
Think
You
I try to view my YouTube channel as a logbook of personal interests.
Simone Giertz
Try
YouTube
Channel
Personal
Interests
View
The wake up machine was actually pretty painful after some time.
Simone Giertz
Time
Wake Up
Machine
Some
Pretty
Wake
Up
After
Painful
Actually
Adding comedy into what I do is just my natural approach. It's how I approach anything that I find tricky or daunting, because it's like putting syrup in your medicine, and it just makes it easier to go down.
Simone Giertz
Natural
Comedy
Down
Medicine
Adding
Approach
Easier
Syrup
Tricky
Find
Daunting
Putting
Like
Because
Makes
How
Go
Just
Anything
Your
Having the brain tumor, coming out of surgery and going through all of that, you're like, I am never going to feel the same and I have this new perspective on life. So much gratitude, life just feels like this enormous treasure. Then that kind of just falls away and you're back being grumpy about having an early morning meeting.
Simone Giertz
Life
Morning
Gratitude
You
I Am
Perspective
Enormous
Meeting
Back
Out
Kind
About
Having
Through
Never
Feel
Feels
New
Like
Am
Surgery
Coming
Falls
Brain
New Perspective
Same
Going
Just
Being
Tumor
Then
Much
Away
Treasure
Early
Grumpy
Early Morning
When I build for YouTube, there isn't necessarily an end goal. I have an idea of how I want a thing to work, but if it doesn't work that way, I can always adapt the story. The story is the main driver, not the machine.
Simone Giertz
Work
Build
YouTube
Way
Machine
I Can
Driver
Main
Idea
Always
How
Goal
End
Want
Story
Thing
Necessarily
Adapt
People should be faced with losing everything a little bit more often because it really helps put a lot of things into perspective.
Simone Giertz
People
Losing
Perspective
Everything
Bit
Faced
More
Put
Because
Lot
Often
Little
Little Bit
Really
Should
Helps
Things
It'd be really neat if I wasn't a Darwin Award winner.
Simone Giertz
Winner
Darwin
Really
Award
Neat
I wanted to see if I could make a living off of having fun.
Simone Giertz
Living
See
Having
Having Fun
Could
Make
Off
Wanted
If I Could
Fun
I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.
Simone Giertz
Life
My Life
Solutions
More
Could
Part
Over-The-Top
Than
Any
Wanted
Useful
Fun
Art scares me. I don't feel cool enough to be an artist.
Simone Giertz
Art
Me
Enough
Scares
Feel
Artist
Cool
We're kind of a guinea pig generation.
Simone Giertz
Generation
Guinea
Guinea Pig
Kind
Pig
I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up.
Simone Giertz
School
Engineer
Engineering
Super
Student
Study
Up
Ambitious
Did
Growing
Growing Up
Finding a better way is all I do.
Simone Giertz
Better
Way
Finding
Better Way
I set out to make a sandwich using a robot arm. I put a knife at the end of it and tried to make it spread peanut butter over bread. It didn't work so great.
Simone Giertz
Work
Great
Robot
Out
Tried
Put
Knife
Arm
Over
Make
Spread
End
Bread
Sandwich
Using
Butter
Peanut
Peanut Butter
Set
As for making video comedy, pretty much anyone can do it. When I got started, I just filmed it with my webcam and used iMovie to edit the video, which I still use.
Simone Giertz
Comedy
Pretty
Edit
Got
Making
Still
Just
Anyone
Which
Video
Much
Use
Used
Started
I got one comment that I had a lot of double chins. I just laughed at it. I do have a double chin, so that's legit.
Simone Giertz
Laughed
Had
Got
Lot
Comment
Just
Chin
Double
I just like having creative solutions to tricky situations.
Simone Giertz
Creative
Tricky
Solutions
Having
Like
Situations
Just
Getting slapped in the face with a plastic arm to wake up is not as painful as it might look - probably more humiliating than painful really.
Simone Giertz
Wake Up
Face
Humiliating
More
Arm
Look
Wake
Up
Than
Getting
Might
Really
Painful
Plastic
Slapped
I'm good at pitching my weaknesses as strengths.
Simone Giertz
Good
Weaknesses
Pitching
Strengths
I spent every day of third grade wearing a glittery purple cowboy hat.
Simone Giertz
Day
Every Day
Every
Spent
Hat
Wearing
Purple
Cowboy
Cowboy Hat
Grade
Third
I'm not very into politics but I love watching shows like 'Last Week Tonight' - people come for the comedy and they stay for the interesting questions.
Simone Giertz
Love
Politics
People
Comedy
I Love
Stay
Week
Come
Like
Questions
Very
Interesting
Shows
Last
Watching
Tonight
A lot of people just write off the projects that I do as stupid, but they obviously aren't, the ideas aren't the smartest but I think there definitely is a lot of thought behind it.
Simone Giertz
People
Thought
Stupid
Think
I Think
Projects
Definitely
Write
Smartest
Ideas
Obviously
Lot
Off
Behind
Just