Working With Abandon
What would it look like to go ahead with your ideas with a sense of freedom and liberation that you don’t always do every day?
What causes us to clamp down on a good idea?
Over the past few years I have discovered that traditional meetings are where good ideas go to die.
If they’re not structured in a way almost similar to a theatre performance, you can ensure that everyone is going to find ways to poke holes in a good idea until it can’t fly off the ground.
Now consider the meetings that you have with yourself. The more time spent thinking about an idea, the less likely it is you’re going to do it.
You can brainstorm and visualize until the cows come home, but nothing will ever hold a candle to direct experience.
Minimizing unproductive meetings with others or with yourself, this isn’t to suggest you become a lone wolf acting on impulse.
What it comes down to is the act of doubting ourselves to take risks.
Don’t ask for other people’s approval before you do something. Go ahead and take small yet meaningful actions towards the thing first.
In work life it might mean making a little prototype or test that helps you show the idea in action.
In the creative world you must go into the space where you forget “the industry” and all the legends that have come before you.
Your Most Creative Work is hard enough as it is to set your mind and achieve.
Don’t make it harder by adding more noise to the signal.