Just one question that's been nagging at me on this one. I agree with the point you're making. But how do you guard against the risk of being overly perfectionist with this approach?
I've never suffered from perfectionism (I have other blocks!) but I can see lots of people not shipping anything at all, because they set the bar too high for themselves, overanalyse, etc.
But honestly - it is a great and valid point. I could say: what’s one more hurdle in today’s world, right? - As someone who does struggle with perfectionism to some degree, I would say what helps is creating conditions to protect us from this tendency - and adding some forcing functions: accountability, having a sounding board, taking whatever we are working on into the territory to see what resonates outside our heads. And that is what many of us are missing: those transitional spaces between public and stuck in our heads. That’s what @Dave Gray does; that’s what - in a different capacity - I want to create.
We were never meant to do it alone. More like solo together.
And look at what just happened: you pushed back, added another angle to look at, and thanks to that my thinking got better because it left the private space and encountered friction.
Another cracker of an essay. Lots of inconvenient truth we need to hear.
We invented play because we love a bit of difficulty, but not too much. But then there is serious play, which deep down we love even more. Yet we circle away from it, and take the path of least resistance instead. The secular equivalent of mortal sin.
Beautiful piece. "The cost never disappears, it migrates" is well said. So was the pantry metaphor. All that range, all those half-formed ideas, finally had a kitchen that could keep up. And then the kitchen never closes. That's the trap nobody warned us about.
Just one question that's been nagging at me on this one. I agree with the point you're making. But how do you guard against the risk of being overly perfectionist with this approach?
I've never suffered from perfectionism (I have other blocks!) but I can see lots of people not shipping anything at all, because they set the bar too high for themselves, overanalyse, etc.
Damn, Paul! Don’t ruin my neat thesis.
But honestly - it is a great and valid point. I could say: what’s one more hurdle in today’s world, right? - As someone who does struggle with perfectionism to some degree, I would say what helps is creating conditions to protect us from this tendency - and adding some forcing functions: accountability, having a sounding board, taking whatever we are working on into the territory to see what resonates outside our heads. And that is what many of us are missing: those transitional spaces between public and stuck in our heads. That’s what @Dave Gray does; that’s what - in a different capacity - I want to create.
We were never meant to do it alone. More like solo together.
And look at what just happened: you pushed back, added another angle to look at, and thanks to that my thinking got better because it left the private space and encountered friction.
Ha, your thesis is alive and well! It was more of a yes and...comment, as it made me think (the best measure of good writing).
I love the idea of these transitional communities. Been running one for startup founders, but never thought of them from that angle.
Synchronicity keeps striking, I think it’s a sign we are on the right track. What a joy to have you both as companions on this journey.
totally! I believe we are simply building/rebuilding the connective tissue, the containers & scaffolding.
Another cracker of an essay. Lots of inconvenient truth we need to hear.
We invented play because we love a bit of difficulty, but not too much. But then there is serious play, which deep down we love even more. Yet we circle away from it, and take the path of least resistance instead. The secular equivalent of mortal sin.
Beautiful piece. "The cost never disappears, it migrates" is well said. So was the pantry metaphor. All that range, all those half-formed ideas, finally had a kitchen that could keep up. And then the kitchen never closes. That's the trap nobody warned us about.