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Rapid Prototype Your Life - Scott H Young

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Rapid prototyping, and comparable methods in the software industry, aim to create a prototypes of a product before investing heavily in the final design. This allows for mistakes to be caught early, and for resources to be spared. Recently, I’ve been thinking about how the process of rapid prototyping can be applied to life itself. Rapid prototyping means you test out, smaller, cheaper and faster elements of your goals before pursuing them for the long-haul. Here’s just a few examples: Actually experiencing an idea will always be more beneficial than just planning it. I learned a lot more about writing a book through actually making one than I could have from just planning to make one. Even a scaled down representation of your final idea is worth far more than a detailed plan. Writing a five page e-book will still probably teach you more about writing than the planning for a 900 page book. Despite this, it seems most people get caught up in the waterfall model of working towards their

Rapid prototyping , and comparable methods in the software industry, aim to create a prototypes of a product before investing heavily in the final design. This allows for mistakes to be caught early, and for resources to be spared. Recently, I’ve been thinking about how the process of rapid prototyping can be applied to life itself. Rapid prototyping means you test out, smaller, cheaper and faster elements of your goals before pursuing them for the long-haul. Here’s just a few examples: World Travel – Want to see the world, but don’t have any money? Instead of just fantasizing about the

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