you must strike when the iron is hot
Don't leave anything for later.
Later you lose interest.
Later opportunities fade.
Later your regrets come.
Later you lost your chance.
Later you lose interest.
Later opportunities fade.
Later your regrets come.
Later you lost your chance.
I’ve noticed this subtle, sneaky, nearly undetectable pattern in myself where I’ll have an idea, and I’ll then say to myself: oh, that’s a great idea. I want to let it sit. I will write about it soon. And then another idea pops up, before I get the chance to write about that first idea. But this next idea is so compelling! And I want to write about... See more
ick says if it's a single best thought you have ever had in your life it needs to dominate everything because you're not going to get many insights like that and
if it's your single best Insight your single best idea then obviously it's what you should spending all your time on
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
Just as you are there to nurse the dough in the window it requires to get the result you want. You can’t do steps 1-8 of a recipe, then decide you’re tired, leave it for 2 days and come back to do steps 8-10 hoping for the same result. This sounds so ridiculous you wouldn’t even try it! Because you know it wouldn’t work. And yet this is how many of... See more
I do love this baking metaphor. It doesn’t match properly but it’s close enough. You know that when you write or do something you must first create leave it and come back not too long after to review the work, taste adjust remove before doing the final steps. You have to strike while the iron is hot and follow through
Make art, and while everyone is deciding what they think of it, make more art.” — Andy Warhol
join me in this attempt to make more and care less
In short: make the thing when the moment is ripe, because now is all you can control. You should never count on the muse sticking around longer than the moment she appears in. Face what you have been avoiding, because it is near-impossible to nurse new opportunities in your life when you have a wake of untended to ideas and tasks trailing behind yo... See more
It’s any time someone hesitates to make the thing they desperately want to make because they succumb to the avoidable things that kill creativity. There is never enough money or time. You will never feel you have enough knowledge. There are no perfect market conditions. Ideas never (read: shouldn’t) come with a guarantee of success. Just make the t
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Ian Wharton.
Relates to Naviety, strike when iron is hot