I know this video is 9 years old, but I only recently discovered it, and I love the idea here: that we don’t execute our ideas because we’re afraid of not being perfect, we’re afraid we aren’t good enough, and we’re afraid of what other people will think. And if we let our excuses, stop us from just doing it and putting stuff out there, even if it’s not perfect (because it won’t be), then we actually get addicted to that idea that we have a bunch of “good” ideas, but we really have nothing to show for it. Here is the transcript:
I run out of ideas every day
Each day I live in mortal fear that I’ve used up the last idea that’ll ever come to me
If you don’t want to run out of ideas, the best thing to do is not to execute them
You can tell yourself that you don’t have the time or resources to do them right
Then they stay around in your head like brain crack
No matter how bad things get, at least you have those good ideas
That you’ll get to later
Some people get addicted to that brain crack
And the longer they wait, the more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea should be executed
And they imagine it on a beautiful platter with glitter and rose petals
And everyone’s clapping for them
But the bummer is, most ideas kinda suck when you do them
And no matter how much you plan, you still have to do something for the first time
And you’re almost guaranteed the first time you do something, it’ll blow
But somebody who does something bad three times, still has three times the experience of that other person
Who’s still dreaming of all the applause
When I get an idea, even a bad one, I try to get it out into the world as fast as possible
Because I certainly don’t want to be addicted to brain crack