Get Numb Before You Get Good

This is a difficult problem, because you don't want to completely eliminate your horror of making something lame. That's what steers you toward doing good work. You just want to turn it off temporarily, the way a painkiller temporarily turns off pain.

Always drill down deeper once you feel frustrated. The adult brain cannot cope with large errors, but only with smaller incremental ones. You have to stack the errors to achieve plasticity. Smaller bouts and bits of learning are necessary per learning epoch.

What’s the smallest, tiniest thing that I can master and what’s the scariest thing I can do in front of the smallest number of people that can teach me how to dance with the fear?” Once we get good at that, we just realize that it’s not fatal. And it’s not intellectually realize – we’ve lived something that wasn’t fatal. And that idea is what’s so ... See more