When it comes to starting anything, we fall into the trap of perfection> but is it possible to create the perfect or good thing at the starting without having any prior experience?
One of my friends who was inspired by some artist. He want to be like him. As all of us are inspired by soemone that’s why start doing soemthing. As I was inspired by Ali Abdal, that’s why I started my own newsletter.
So he start diggine to create to same type of work. He went hard to himself, to create the same level of perfect work which his ideal is creating. After some month he gave up becausae he was exhausted.
But the question is why he became exhausted, even he loves to do that work in the first place?
Beauce he expect too much from himself without having experince in his skill. He expect from himsef to create the same level of art whcih someone creates after years of practicing.
When we start learning how to drive. Did we expect from ourself that we have to drive perfectly in the first day?
As driver is our ideal and teacher is driver but we never expect from ourself to drive perfectly in 2-3 days. After getting started, we focus only on continious learning, then the stage came when we focus on perfection, to drive in a good way without doing any big mistakes.
As you are the student, so the artist story doen’t resonate with you that much.
So as a student you should focus on three things when it comes to starting anything:
- Get started
- Kept going
- Be soo good.
- Get started: You’ve to start first, there is no other way. In order to walk, you have to move your legs. You can’t cover the distance by thinking only.You don’t have to think about the best note taking stretgy, best way to study etc….these things comes with experience. Just do everything in imperfection way, at the beggining. There is an art in the imperfection. Just like I’m doing with the newsletter, yet I don’t know how to write better. Actionable advice: How to start? Just start and start small.
- kept going: If you are caught in the trap of perfection, soon you’ll be exhausted. Most of the students give up because of burnout.In order to win, you have to stay.. War is won by those who stayed in the field longer time. At the beggining focus on cosisitency. Don’t skip 2 days . Touch everything. There should be no stone unturned at the end of the day.Actionable Advice: Start small and be consistent going to study place.
- Be soo good: You can’t jump from 0 to last step directly. No one ever did it and if you can then you may be the exception. be soo good, no one can ignore you In order to win in something, you have to be the best. Best in everything. You can’t crack exam until you are the best aspirant in the batch. Be soo good in things which you do. Give your 100%. Be open to every learning opportunity.
P.S: In case you don’t know, Ali published the brand new book- Feel good productivity , so why not to start the 2024 by reading it? This book is based on productitity-how to enjoy the work.
