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.
Knowing what your don’t know is often the first step toward developing expertise.
When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
When you begin working on a project, start small. Identify a problem that's manageable yet challenging, and gradually scale up as your skills improve.
Samuel Thorpe • The Essential Beginner’s Guide to AI
First, we want to break our objective down into its smallest constituent parts—identifying the challenges that will be easiest to tackle first. Second, by surmounting the tiniest hurdles first, we hope to build up psychological momentum. Your lower mind needs to believe that it has the ability to accomplish a smaller goal before it will allow your
... See moreAnthony Raymond • Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)
Change is always uncertain, and there is no guarantee of success, no matter how hard you try. It makes sense to be fearful. The way forward is to reduce the risk (and the fear) of failure by designing a series of small prototypes to test the waters. It is okay for prototypes to fail—they are supposed to—but well-designed prototypes teach you someth
... See moreDave Evans • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
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.