You don’t wait to be good before you start making things. You make things until you’re good.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Skill is the result of output, not a ticket you have to buy before you are allowed to produce any. Everyone whose work you admire has a pile of early attempts they would rather you never saw. Waiting until you are ready means waiting for something that only arrives through the work you are avoiding.

Set a volume target instead of a quality one. Ten songs, twenty drawings, six short pieces, whatever your thing is. Judge the batch at the end rather than each piece as it appears.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What are you postponing until some imaginary skill level arrives?

MORE IN AMBITION, SUCCESS & LEGACY

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.