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Anything worth doing, is worth doing badly…. at first

Alvin from the Life Coaches Blog has this great story :
Anything worth doing, is worth doing badly…at first.

Being an animation student, one book I read was Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist by Chuck Jones, a pioneer animator and director of the old Looney Tunes cartoons so many of us know and love. A story from that book made a deep impression on me, and even though I don’t remember it exactly, I want to share the gist of it with you.

When he was starting out, Chuck was told by a senior animator that everyone has about 10,000 (I don’t remember the exact number here) lousy drawings in them they need to get rid of, before they can really start drawing.’

According to Chuck he used that line to spur him onwards, sometimes drawing and re-drawing his work again and again just so he could get that one perfect drawing.

Whenever you do something new, you will most likely suck at it, or even fall flat on your face. Be prepared for it, it’s natural. Finding something difficult can be a sign that you’re learning something new, if it’s too easy it’s probably has elements of what you already know.

great story Alvin. It often surprises me when people I know won’t try something new because they are scared of “looking like an idiot”. That’s a pretty messed up way of looking at life. Hell, I figure people already think I’m an idiot, so what do I have to lose??
 
When we started The Podcast Network a year ago, I had no idea what it took to run a media company. I’d never been in the media business. I’d never run a company. We’d only been podcasting for a couple of months. But I just kept telling myself “well, cmon, how hard can it be?” And hell, we’ve made LOTS of mistakes. Keep making them every day. But you learn. You get smarter. I remember reading the BRW Rich 200 (an annual list of Australia’s wealthiest individuals) many years ago and realizing that many of our most successful businesspeople had failed over and over in business until they finally got it right.

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One Response to “Anything worth doing, is worth doing badly…. at first”

  1. Alvin Says:
    February 14th, 2006 at 12:05 pm

    Thanks! :D

    Before I launched Life Coaches Blog I had no idea what it’d really be like to run a (semi) pro blog, but after doing my R&D, at some point I knew I just had to take a deep breath, and take the plunge. It’s been a very interesting journey up to this point, and I’ve made lots of mistakes myself, but I’ve learnt so much more this way than if I had just sat on the sidelines.

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