Beyond Overpreparation: How to Start Before You Feel Ready

The real preparation was developing the mindset that could embrace uncertainty while maintaining purpose. It's about becoming what I call an "altruistic renegade" – someone willing to break conventions and take risks, but always with a greater purpose in mind.

It is when you begin expressing your ideas and turning your knowledge into action that life really begins to change. You’ll read differently, becoming more focused on the parts most relevant to the argument you’re building. You’ll ask sharper questions, no longer satisfied with vague explanations or leaps in logic. You’ll naturally seek venues to

A common challenge for people who are curious and love to learn is that we can fall into the habit of continuously force-feeding ourselves more and more information, but never actually take the next step and apply

Knowledge is best applied through execution, which means whatever doesn’t help you make progress on your projects is probably detracting from them.

To truly “know” something, it’s not enough to read about it in a book. Ideas are merely thoughts until you put them into action. Thoughts are fleeting, quickly fading as time passes. To truly make an idea stick, you have to engage with it. You have to get your hands dirty and apply that knowledge to a practical problem. We learn by making concrete