“I had been trying to get ahead of myself and know things I didn’t know yet.”

On not being afraid to change up your process

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/actor-and-writer-tavi-gevinson-on-not-being-afraid-to-change-up-your-process/

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avoid starting a project before we know what the beginning is. And to know the beginning, we have to have a plan for the whole thing. And to have a plan for the whole thing, we need a complete accounting of the project’s substance.

This, as far as I can tell, is impossible. A meaningful idea—especially a complex one—is revealed in fits and starts.

One shift that can help us all is to change our minds about planning. Like search, planning is a literacy that’s not taught in school, and yet it’s a key to success in life and work. We plan events, trips, families, sites, systems, companies, and cities. We do it all the time but make the same mistakes. First, we procrastinate. We fear complexity,

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