a motto to live by: I do not require ideal conditions to do exceptional work
Am I some sort of prodigy? I don’t think so. I ship. I don’t get in the way of the muse, I fight the resistance, and I ship. I do this by not doing an enormous number of tasks that are perfect stalling devices, ideal ways of introducing the resistance into our lives.
Seth Godin • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Most variables are completely out of our control. The only ones we can control are doing our best work, sharing it, starting the next, and not looking back.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
I will often run into people who will say they need the right scenario to do their work. If they only had a better camera, or the right word processor, or a better organizational system they would begin doing the work. But you don’t need the perfect setup to do the work.