You can’t skip to the part where you’re good. You can stop delaying the part where you’re bad.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Only one route exists, and it runs across a stretch of being visibly not good. Waiting does not shorten that stretch, it only moves it later, which is why people in their thirties start things they wanted at seventeen and serve exactly the same apprenticeship anyway. The incompetence is not the optional part. The delay is the only piece you control.

So take the thing you have been putting off until you are ready and do a bad version this week. First draft, first attempt, first lesson. The aim is to begin the bad part on purpose instead of letting it wait for you.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What are you delaying because the early part is embarrassing?

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