“A lot of people ask themselves questions until they're so scared of the future they'll never do anything new."
These questions probably sound familiar:
How do I scale this thing?
Can I really find financing for this?
Do I have a decent chance of being successful?
“Oh my god, someone else out there is doing exactly the same thing! What now?"
Who has already done this better, faster, smarter than me?
“All of these doubts kick in, overcomplicate things, and kill projects that could have become something," says van Schneider. “When you’re focused on just taking that first step, or that next right step to keep things in motion, you won’t ask yourself all these questions."
My first piece of advice is to just fucking do it.
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I have seen Steve Job's interview that was referred in this article earlier, and I showed that video to my students in iOS programming class, 4 years back, but some how lost the meaning of it, and was trying not to bash the wall and trying to live in the limited boundary.
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There’s a famous Steve Jobs interview where he talks about the moment he realized that the world was defined and built by people who were no smarter than him. It was the same moment he knew that he was free to make anything possible.
“I love that interview because that’s not how most people learned things in school," says van Schneider. “We’re taught from the beginning that we have to sit there and learn from people who are smarter than us. Sure, there might be people who are more experienced, but they also had to learn and fail to get there, and we often don’t get to see that part. I think once you embrace this reality, so many doors open and failure doesn’t matter anymore."