I never finished college.  The time I did spend in college I learned about web design.  But I consider myself more of a web developer than a designer.  And I never learned a thing about entrepreneurship. (Ha, I just had to look that word up in the dictionary.)

When thinking recently about some of the values I subconsciously lived by when starting Threadless, I kept coming back to one.  I was never afraid to figure things out on my own.  Things may not have been done as well as an “expert” could do them but they got the job done.  It is also extremely gratifying to just stumble your way into the unknown and come out of it with something new that you learned or made or figured out.  The feeling of surprising yourself, finding out that you are capable of doing something you didn’t know how to do.

It’s a value I look for in people I work with.  People willing to step outside their comfort zone every once in a while and do something new… innovate.

If you don’t already know it, you are capable of so much more than you already know.  Push it.  I bet you could figure out how to make the best blueberry pie in the world if you wanted to.