Keep the recording of your first terrible song. Someday it’ll be the best proof of how far you came.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Early work is embarrassing for exactly the reason it is valuable. It marks the floor you started from, and without it you lose the ability to see your own progress, since improvement feels like nothing at all from the inside. Deleting the bad version destroys the only evidence.
Keep the first clumsy version of whatever you are learning, filed and dated. Then look at it in a year rather than tonight.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What early, clumsy attempt of yours is worth keeping?
MORE IN TIME, MORTALITY & LEGACY
- The hardest part about time isn’t that it runs out. It’s that it runs while you’re distracted.
- The best things you do may help people you’ll never meet. That’s not a loss. That’s the whole point of legacy.
- Waiting tables, you notice the families who put their phones away. They’re the ones still talking when the check comes.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.