Captain's Log — Issue 018

One takeaway every week. Drawn from anime. Built for your real life.

Most people are waiting to be ready.

Waiting until the idea is clearer. The timing is better. The skills are sharper. Or even until they can do it properly.

What ends up happening is that the thing they want to build keeps not getting built.

Subaru arrived in another world with nothing. Without any power or a plan. He had no idea what he was doing. He failed in ways that should have finished him. But he showed up anyway.

It wasn't because he was brave but because the alternative was staying still.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

The things worth building don't wait for you to be ready. They get built badly first. A rough version. An imperfect attempt. Something that proves the idea exists outside your head.

Doing it badly beats not started perfectly every time.

Here's the one thing to do this week:

Pick the thing you've been waiting to do properly. Do a bad version of it today. Not a draft. The actual thing. Send it. Post it. Say it. Ship it.

The first version is supposed to be bad. That's not a bug. That's how it starts.

Watch how Subaru does it:

Chart your course,
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