#93: Selling the Idea, Making the Thing, Respecting the Duty of Care #93: Selling the Idea, Making the Thing, Respecting the Duty of Care
It’s any time someone hesitates to make the thing they desperately want to make because they succumb to the avoidable things that kill creativity. There is never enough money or time. You will never feel you have enough knowledge. There are no perfect market conditions. Ideas never (read: shouldn’t) come with a guarantee of success. Just make the t
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Ian Wharton.
Relates to Naviety, strike when iron is hot
The first mistake creative and entrepreneurial people make is being too optimistic about the ability of their audience to retain the information they are given.
Anytime you are pitching or presenting work, you are competing with every other idea, piece of information and decision that is trying to occupy your audience's mind. They are constantly eva
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Ian Wharton
The lesson is that you find out what it’s like to properly care about something and whether or not what you’re doing matters. Otherwise, you’d yield.
Lauren Crichton • #93: Selling the Idea, Making the Thing, Respecting the Duty of Care #93: Selling the Idea, Making the Thing, Respecting the Duty of Care
Embrace, just do it and also this idea that learning what you don’t want is as important as what you do want