I grew up watching a television show called McGiver.

If you've never had the chance to watch this icon of the 80s, do yourself a favor and

give it a try.

Sure, the clothes are outdated and the hair...oh my gosh, the hair.

But aside from the bits that didn't age well, Mick Mullet and his trusty pocket knife

managed to capture my imagination forever.

Part of it was the adventure.

Part of it was the character of the man himself.

I mean, the guy essentially was a spy who hated guns, played hockey and lived on a houseboat,

but hovering above all of those elements was the true core of the show.

This man could make anything if his life depended on it.

As humans, we have this innate drive inside ourselves to make things.

This is how we manage to create things like the wheel, or stone tools and weapons.

Our tendency toward technology pulled our ancient ancestors out of the Stone Age and into

a more civilized world.

Maybe for some of us, McGiver represents what we wanted to achieve.

Complete mastery over our world.

But life is rarely as simple as that, and however hard we try to get our minds and hands

around this world we want to rule, something's just slipped through the cracks.

Once happen, ideas and concepts still elude our limited minds, or human after all, not

gods.

So when things go wrong, when our plans fall apart or our expectations fail to be met,

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