The first one should suck.
Your first blog entry, book, video, business idea, Python script, painting, clay bowl, and soufflé should all suck.
Go ahead and hit publish. Buy the ads. Put it in the kiln. Take it out of the oven and dig in.
If they don’t, either you got lucky or you didn’t lean far enough.
Too often, we treat the first draft as the final version. But it’s not. It’s the first draft. It’s the ticket in. It’s the starting line.
The first one isn’t proof of your talent, skill, or whether you might be successful. It’s the proof that you started.
Embrace the cringe. Get the feedback.
The first one should suck.
That’s how you know the second will be better.
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