Start With Creation

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• Author: Simon Sarris
• Full Title: Start With Creation
• URL: https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/start-with-creation

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Failure is something you want to tempt. You should court it the way the bullfighter courts the bull. When I wish to learn something, I begin with this in mind. A meaningful first project should have sufficient difficulty that there is some real chance of failure. It is in approaching the edges of our abilities that we are really learning, and often simple projects feel more like delaying things, including delaying mastery (View Highlight)

I said some time ago on Twitter offhandedly, “If you have a ten year plan, what’s stopping you from doing it in two?” This is what I mean. One can too easily sleepwalk into years of “I wish I could…” (View Highlight)

Or you can start with creation. Pick something hard. You will shape something and it will shape you. (View Highlight)