finishing things

Novelist and comic book writer Neil Gaiman on the source of improvement:

"You have to finish things — that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things."

Source: Neil Gaiman's Advice to Aspiring Writers

Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.

Most people will approach a big project as a heavy lift. You know, you have four hours of deep work thio complete, you know, say something you had to write or a project that you're working on. Instead, Tiago recommends breaking it into the smaller chunks of work that you can dio at different times, so it's more flexible and adaptable. You don't hav

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