becoming

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Each failure is different, and each defeat is closer to victory than the last.

Keep your drafts offline, don’t post your work-in-progress, make things no one will ever see. That’s where the real progress happens.

even though dreaming feels selfish or foolish, given the stark state of the world, it is the essential human quality that allows us not to surrender to despair and move toward a future built by us rather than imposed onto us.

Now, every unfinished attempt exists next to someone else’s polished portfolio. We scroll through a feed of fully formed work and mistake it for the natural state of creation. Everyone else seems complete, while you’re the only one still becoming .

So how can you comfortably stay in this gap between knowing and doing until you’re ready to become more?—

Make choices that reinforce your future self, even when they feel premature. You won’t become that version of yourself by waiting to feel ready. Read what “they” would read. Dress how “they” would dress. Work like “they” would on a good day.... See more

One of the key findings that comes up again and again is known as the “5-hour rule.” In short, this is the rule where we spend one hour a day learning, reflecting, and thinking. We do this five times a week (which makes up the “5-hour” rule).