What personality trait made you good at Sheets?
Discover how thinking inside the box, rather than outside of it, can enhance your problem-solving skills in Google Sheets and beyond. This video explores the importance of constraints in fostering creativity and efficiency.
What personality trait made you good at Sheets? most people will probably say curiosity. I think it's actually thinking inside the box. I know you probably heard the phrase think outside the box is really being creative, but I think inside the box, and I think the constraints really help me think very creatively. Look, I love Sudoku, crosswords, I love solving puzzles, I love board games where there's a very s- singular set of rules and constraints, and you need to find the most efficient path through this And in fact, in my professional life, this is shown over and over again. When I was in charge of digital signage and digital screens around a cruise ship, I wanted to put video on screens in front of the theater. A Decade of Spreadsheet Wisdom
And when I asked the company who made the screens if it was possible, they said no. , This was 2010. Before we have vertical video like this right here, vertical video was not a thing then, and the screens were all vertical. And I wanted to take normal video, turn it 90 degrees, put it on that screen. They said, "That's not possible." So what I did is I went out to the theater at, like, midnight to 2:00 AM, and I fiddled around with the software as much as I could, and I figured out that you could take horizontal video, blow it out bigger than the screen, and just crop it, and you got vertical video. So it was possible to think inside the box.