CREATIVITY TIP: Stop Thinking Your Project is Important
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Tuesbetter Newsletter #134
It’s time for Thursbetter Nursletter! When I need motivation to do a project the BEST thing I can do is reduce its importance in my brain. It’s just a stupid thing I’m making. The world absolutely doesn’t need it. It doesn’t matter. It could fail or succeed and either way the world keeps turning. Why does this work? I dunno. I guess it just frees up my brain to just try stuff. Be silly. Go with my first instinct. I can make a messy thing and fix it later. That’s easier than making a perfect thing right away. Over time the more imperfect things I make the better I get at it, because I made…
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