The Map Is Not the Territory (and It’s Definitely Not Progress)
First, you have to get comfortable with the idea that your model will always be incomplete and partially wrong. Always. You could spend your entire life refining your understanding of how to write a novel, and you'd still learn more from writing one bad novel than from all that study. The territory is infinitely richer than any map can capture.
The Map Is Not the Territory (and It’s Definitely Not Progress)
Joan Westenberg