Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

You are in charge of how you spend your time. In charge of the questions you ask. In charge of the insight that you produce.

Your work is never going to be good enough (for everyone). But it’s already good enough (for someone).

Trusting yourself doesn’t create overconfidence, because you’re focused on the process, not on making promises you can’t keep.

But the practice requires us to do our work without becoming attached to the outcome. It’s not overconfidence, it’s a practice of experiments that respect the pitfalls of hubris.

When we trust ourselves, we’re focused on the process, not the outcome. The process of doing our work and paying attention to the outcome without requiring it to happen. The process of preparation and revision. And the process of caring enough to contribute.

By definition, overconfidence leads to risky behavior and inadequate preparation.

Art solves problems in a novel way, and problems always have constraints.

All creative work has constraints, because all creativity is based on using existing constraints to find new solutions.