Paul ArdenToo many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…
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When you have a hobby, the first thing you want to do is learn how to play it. And when you can play it well, you start perfecting your skills. But then you get good at playing, and that leads to someone getting better at playing. That means that you have to get better at playing to keep progressing.
You go from being a beginner who doesn’t know what they’re doing, to a beginner who knows a little bit about it, which leads to becoming an intermediate player, which leads you to becoming a pro. Then suddenly one day you wake up and realize that the only people who are good at your hobby are the ones who have been practicing for years and years. They’ve been doing it for so long that they don’t even think about it anymore—they just do it.
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