Dare to suck

Examples of daring to suck and what impact it can have

(It’s Great to) Suck at Something

I annotated my friend’s book manuscript with scribbles on every page. She annotated mine with a single note: This needs to be better. She trusted that I would know what to do, and I did.

Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments

Start somewhere bad to get somewhere good. A few weeks ago, I interviewed psychologist Adam Alter about his book Anatomy of a Breakthrough . In it, he writes about the “creative cliff illusion,” the notion that good creative ideas will either come quickly or not at all. Unfortunately, our intuition has that one approximately backward. In studies of... See more

David Epstein • Pour Out Lesser Ideas to Get to Great Ones

Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:

Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read th

Substack • Notes | Substack

cool ways to push yourself to create outside of comfort zone and outside of well trodded paths

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