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Get Numb Before You Get Good
This is a difficult problem, because you don't want to completely eliminate your horror of making something lame. That's what steers you toward doing good work. You just want to turn it off temporarily, the way a painkiller temporarily turns off pain.
Paul Graham • Early Work
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In this fear, your interpretation is to never do something you can’t do flawlessly. As a result, you will only focus your energy into the spaces you know you can be exceptional.
Chris McAlister • Figure That Shift Out
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6 Famous Artists Talk About What It’s Like to Overcome Fear and Create Beauty
James Clearjamesclear.com
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Comfort in learning is a paradox. You can’t become truly comfortable with a skill until you’ve practiced it enough to master it. But practicing it before you master it is uncomfortable, so you often avoid it.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Unfortunately, sucking and failing over and over again is part of the learning process, no matter what we’re learning. But if we’re committed to protecting and pleasing and proving, then looking like a failure is a big no-no. If we’re committed to whatever glorious story we want to tell about ourselves — I’ve got my shit together, I’m in control, I
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When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
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