intromert

I'm Mert. I'm building the thing I always dreamed of. I don't remember what the dream looked like, so I'm just focused on the execution. Pushing and pulling, adding and removing...

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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good... your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit.
— Ira Glass, The Gap

The gap is real. I feel it every time I make something. Gap is disturbing… and it’s been years, not just “the first couple of years”… My taste knows where I want to be, my hands aren’t there yet… Maybe I’m not giving my all? don’t know… The big gap, doesn’t seem to be shrinking to me, but still…

Start small...on something big.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
This is hard. This is fun.
— Carol S. Dweck, Mindset

Exactly… The moment my brain and body moves from stress to curiosity I feel powerful and capable. This is hard… and fun.

Becoming is better than being.
— Carol S. Dweck, Mindset

The process over the product…