{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"\ud83d\udd27 One Month Became Eight Years: Tim Leatherman and the Tool That Built a Life \ud83e\uddf0","description":"A loose bolt. A leaking pipe. A car that refuses to cooperate. Most of us see aggravation. Tim Leatherman saw an invention. In 1975, Tim and his wife, Chau, were traveling through Europe on a tight budget in a temperamental $300 Fiat. Tim carried a scout knife, but every roadside repair and questionable hotel sink left him wishing for one more thing. Pliers. He wrote down four words: \u201cAdd pliers to pocketknife.\u201d Simple idea. Brutal journey. Tim thought he could build the prototype in one month. It took three years. Then came rejection after rejection. Knife companies said it was a tool. Tool companies dismissed it as a gadget. For years, the market had no category for what Tim had created. Then, in 1983, Cabela\u2019s ordered 500 Pocket Survival Tools. A new product category was born. More than four decades and 90 million multi-tools later, Tim Leatherman has built something new. This time, it has pages. The Leatherman Book, written with journalist Chris Kornelis, turns Tim\u2019s story into a field guide for anyone carrying an unfinished idea, starting a second act, or wondering whether the door has already closed. Today, we\u2019ll talk about persistence and its price. We\u2019ll ask how to tell commitment from stubbornness, what rejection teaches that success cannot, and why usefulness may be one of the finest legacies a person can leave. Our guest today is inventor, engineer, author, and Leatherman founder Tim Leatherman. Tim, welcome to The Not Old Better Show. ","author_name":"The Not Old - Better Show","author_url":"https:\/\/www.notold-better.com\/","html":"