The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.
The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.
Every piece of work has two phases. First there’s the uphill phase of figuring out what our approach is and what we’re going to do. Then, once we can see all the work involved, there’s the downhill phase of execution.
Commoncog • Exploiting Productivity Momentum
This speaks to a classic problem faced by beginners: setting unrealistic expectations. It makes little sense to lay down strict goals ahead of time for advancing in some discipline when the novice barely understands what the discipline is, what will be required, or how they’ll actually progress. Unmet goals can destroy motivation as much as they dr
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An Impossible Task, a Worthy Goal
Bill Perkins • Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
We can begin with this: If we failed, would it be worth the journey? Do you trust yourself enough to commit to engaging with a project regardless of the chances of success? The first step is to separate the process from the outcome.
Seth Godin • The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
Surprising fact: To create something truly great you have to repeat a small number of powerful words over and over again
In any complex effort, communicating a well-articulated vision for what you’re trying to do is the starting point for figuring out how to do it. And though coming up with such a vision is difficult, it’s unquestionably more difficult to complete the entire circuit, to come up with an idea, a plan to realize the idea, and then actualize the plan at
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