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Every Tool's a Hammer
- Life Is What You Make It
- Narrated by: Adam Savage
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Summary
MythBusters’ Adam Savage - Discovery Channel star and one of the most beloved figures in science and tech - shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully turning your idea into reality.
Adam Savage is a maker. From Chewbacca’s bandolier to a thousand-shot Nerf gun, he has built thousands of spectacular projects as a special effects artist and the cohost of MythBusters. Adam is also an educator, passionate about instilling the principles of making in the next generation of inventors and inspiring them to turn their curiosity into creation.
In this practical and passionate guide, Adam weaves together vivid personal stories, original sketches and photographs from some of his most memorable projects, and interviews with many of his iconic and visionary friends in the arts and sciences - including Pixar director Andrew Stanton, Nick Offerman, Oscar-winner Guillermo Del Toro and artist Tom Sachs - to demonstrate the many lessons he has picked up from a lifetime of making.
Things like: don’t wait until everything is perfect - in your workshop or in your life - to begin. Plan with pencil and paper. Sweep up every day. Learn from doing. Share your toys. There is an exact tool for every task (Adam probably has four of them in his wondrous shop), but if you need to pound in a nail and all you have handy is a skill saw - hammer away. The most important thing, always, is just that you make something.
Every Tool’s a Hammer is sure to guide and inspire you to build, make, invent, explore and, most of all, enjoy the thrills of being a creator.
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Critic reviews
"Adam has drawn for us an imperative how-to for creativity... I am aware of no human outside of fiction more qualified to pen this rousing paean to making. I adore this book," (Nick Offerman, star of Parks and Recreation)
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- Kenneth Martin
- 25-02-20
Inspiring
I found a new way to approach things and to achieve my goals. will be listening to it again
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- Mike Paterson
- 28-03-21
Inspiring
I've followed Adam Savage for many years and followed his advice and ideology in my own tiny workshop. This book is almost a bible of how to set up, run and utilise ideas and thought processes in your own creative way. It will certainly change, not only how I work on my own projects, but how I approach my own daily life too.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-04-20
Fantastic!
It's a biography and so much more!
You can take it as just a biography or you can become consumed by it, then it becomes an insight to a new world of working and thinking or an instructional self-help book to become more productive.
The way Adam reads it just gives it a whole new dimension and personally I think reading it in your own head just wouldn't do it justice.
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- Amazon user
- 19-07-19
great book
I loved it, I'm inspired to finish my Saturn 5 model that's been sitting half done in my shed for 18 months. After I tidy the place up haha thanks Adam👍
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- I like random things
- 19-05-22
Informative and heartwarming
Been a fan of Adam since Mythbusters and I watch all of his Tested videos on YouTube and decided to listen to this too. I’m so happy that I have. The best way I can describe this one is like having a amazing uncle who has lived a awesome life give you a few pointers on what ways you could do things and what directions in life you could take but doesn’t come across as condescending.
Thank you Adam Savage for this gift.
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- T K
- 30-05-19
Wonderful book, excellent narration
Always been a fan of Adam Savage and this book is so interesting, the narration is lovely as its read by Adam himself which bring a whole new level to it.
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- Mr Roderick K Jamieson
- 08-09-20
Like looking in a mirror !!!
Granted I haven’t “made” a lot of things, I’m a model maker but I will get into prop making soon, however the parts about list making and their benefits, tools and starting with cheap ones until you find out if you actually need it and about “future me” and “past me” are all things I have done, do and will do more of.
I really enjoyed this book, it was nice to hear about Adams journey from a kid to where he is now. I don’t want to sound cliché but I feel like he was writing my story too in a lot of ways.
I would definitely listen to anything else that Adam found the time to write.
Thank you for this Mr Savage this will be the first of many visits to your book.
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- Pen Name
- 12-05-21
Everything you expect and more!
This is a fantastic book by a fantastic maker, person, and role model. This book has not only inspired me but changed my outlook on life!
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- Amba Morton
- 30-07-19
A Makers Dream
If you need motivation or guidance look no further this is the makers guide. Thank You. Adam Savage
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- Colin van Dongen
- 02-03-21
Epic and inspirational
It’s hard to explain how much of an influence Adam has made on my life already. He’s a legend but also humble and genuine. He loves what he does.
His dream was to be a maker and he’s nailing that everyday no pun intended. The tools from this book can be applied to any industry and used in your life. The only question I still have is Adam why didn’t you just buy your own hammer for Jamie’s shop? Lol 😂🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟⚡️
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