I experienced this when learning violin, and then trying to play something that was beyond my ability, and a lot of people experience this when they start to get really good at something, but then they realize how much different their skill is than someone who is an expert at something
Two thing...
Go to an open mic night for comedians and musicians. Go to a student art show. Go to a skate park.
Go listen to 10000 hours by macklemore (not the Justin Bieber song... Different meaning there)
The ability to create is a learned skill that comes from lots of grinding. Even a child learning...
- There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
- Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
- There is no editing stage.
- Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what...
Do the imperfect.
Do that which is tedious in whatever way gets you through it.
Though it may suck, both the doing and how well you do it, it is far better than to not do the thing you are looking to do.
Everyone is always intimidated that the thing they want to do is populated by those who ar...
I kinda love going to a popular youtuber's channel, going to their videos section, and sorting by oldest.
What is now a polished producer of content that makes you feel intimidated to even attempt to make videos was once someone with a crappy camera, shooting in their back yard with a bad audio...
Consistency is what I have been progressing more to. It helps to have lots of ideas and passion, but to do something big: build strength, learning a music instrument, run for office, build a side project, etc, requires doing something every day towards that goal in an endless way. I am actually d...
I have been working out using a google spreadsheet to track workouts. I aim to do a 20 rep max each week for each exercise that is slightly above the previous week. So far, it has lead to a nice continuous improvement... assuming I don't ever skip weeks. Each time I skip more than 2 weeks it push...
