Build the skill quietly for a year. Nobody needs to see the ugly middle.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
The middle of learning anything is ugly, and it is much easier to endure with nobody watching. Announcing early creates an expectation of progress, and then you start making the choices that look like progress rather than the ones that build the skill. Privacy protects the awkward stage from your own self-consciousness.
Pick something you want to be good at and give it a year with no commentary. Tell one person if you need someone to answer to. When it finally surfaces it will be a real thing rather than a long series of updates about a beginner.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What skill would you start if nobody watched the first year?
MORE IN GROWTH, CHANGE & REINVENTION
- Age does not automatically make someone wise, but it gives them enough evidence to become wise if they look.
- Edit your life like a video. Cut the dead air, keep the good parts, and stop showing scenes that go nowhere.
- Every good editor trims the dead air. Look at your day and find the scenes that go nowhere.
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