don’t be discouraged
weathering the ups and downs of creative projects, life, relationships. one brick at a time.
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don’t be discouraged
"Who cares if the first draft is good? It doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to be, so you can revise it. You don’t need an idea to start a story. You just need a sentence"
- George Saunders
(good advice in general)
Andy Weissmantwitter.comvia Albert Einstein:
“It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.”
defending the period of “relentless action before results” is half the battle.
James Clear • Haters and Critics: How to Deal with People Judging You and Your Work
Because you care. Feeling heartbroken, enraged, depleted, burned out — simply feeling — stems from care. That is a beautiful thing. The most beautiful thing. Don’t lose touch with it.
Caroline Cala Donofrio • Reasons to Keep Going
In 1817, the poet John Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization. “At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.” Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching ... See more
I tell a lot of entrepreneurs who don’t have traction, I miss those times. Yes, it’s exciting to have traction, to have a company that has huge scale. But the biggest leaps you ever get are when you’re small. Another way of saying it is: Your product changes less the bigger you get because there’s more customers, more blowback, more systems, more
... See moreReid Hoffman • How to Scale a Magical Experience: 4 Lessons from Airbnb’s Brian Chesky
don’t be discouraged if you don’t know how to describe what you’re building. originality requires a long term willingness to be misunderstood.