Getting started

A podcast that I have recently started listening to, and very much enjoy, is the ‘Unmistakable Creative’ (a show where the world’s leading thinkers share their stories). A recent guest on the show was thought leader- Sarah Peck. While I would recommend that you guys listen to the whole show, one of the things that Sarah mentioned, struck a deep chord with me. She spoke about getting started. How most of us think so much before getting started that we never start at all.

Quantity increases quality:

Sarah said that the people who produce the best work are the ones who produce the most work. In the academic world, researchers have to publish a certain number of academic papers. When you look at the volume/body of work that people produce, the ones who have published the best set of papers aren’t a set of isolated people. They have an equal odds ratio of producing really crappy papers. The people who produce the most best work are the people who produce the most work. Somebody who writes 10 books has a better chance of having a New York times bestseller than somebody who writes one. (Well, obviously) But so many people put so much importance and weight on that one chance, that one essay, that one presentation, that one performance that they fail to even start.

Start somewhere. And then, only forward. Great learning here. Perfection is, anyway, an illusion.

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