Do The Thing 2025
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Do The Thing 2025
This is one of the fun parts of a project, because nothing is at stake. You get to play with forms and see what takes shape. There are no rules. Cultivation will look different for every artist and every seed.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” ~ Mark Twain
FacileThings @FacileThings
And this is where I’m supposed to say, “Getting started is easy!” But I can’t do that to you. It’s not easy at all. Getting started is the hardest part. As you begin, you’ll find every excuse to wait and every reason to delay. You’ll stop to reflect on what to write about. You’ll come up with reasons why it’s not time yet, why you’re not ready. And
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We have collected a handful of seeds—of starting points and potentialities. We now enter the second stage, the Experimentation phase.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
We need to find the minimum viable scaffolding to get our work started and then focus on doing the work from there, making little adjustments as we go.
Nat Eliason • Don't Put the Tool Before the Craft
But keep in mind that you definitely do not need to finish this book to start. Start as soon as you can. Start before you feel ready. Start today. You don’t learn, then start. You start, then learn.
