doing the thing

I think that talking about agency and introspection separately is misguided. People who emphasize how to get things done, and move faster, and reach higher levels of mastery—agency without introspection—tend to get pulled into fierce yet boring status competitions. People who emphasize introspection and emotions but without a problem solving... See more

. “In general, I like doing action — not saying what should happen, but doing what should happen,” Baskin says. “I think if I hadn’t staged the onigiri, and I had just kept saying, ‘We should have onigiri,’ I think we would stay dreaming, as opposed to actually going through a staged reality. I think that that creates more of a deeper excitement... See more

Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing.

Telling people you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn't doing

the thing.

Writing a banger tweet about how you're going to... See more

Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.