[antifragile 4 🔥 - pushing work ✅] my most lucrative philosophy, Seth Godin on a great way to hide, Sahil Bloom on the worst prison in the world, a final nudge
#32: a weekly 4-item newsletter created to inspire dads to use the challenges of fatherhood as fuel for building an incredible life & an antifragile mind.
Welcome to the 32nd edition of the antifragile 4 🔥.
It’s a weekly 4-item newsletter created to inspire dads to use the challenges of fatherhood as fuel for building an incredible life & an antifragile mind. Some weeks will have a theme, others will meander. Expect it every Friday.
This week, we’re talking about pushing work ✅ i.e. sharing your ideas with the world. The good and (especially) the bad.
Here is this week’s antifragile 4 🔥 - pushing work ✅ edition:
the philosophy 💡 I credit with most of my professional success
Seth Godin 🫣 on a great way to hide
the worst prison in the world ⛓️ according to Sahil Bloom
a nudge 😌 to end with
+ AI Image of the Week 🤖 🎨
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1.) the single idea 💡 I credit with most of my professional success
Perfect is the enemy of done.
Most of my work life operates under this philosophy.
If I’ve learned anything in my first 15 years (!) in business, it’s that NO idea or project or design or strategy ever survives in its original state. They always change.
So why do we waste time trying to make it perfect the first time?
Put a strong effort to get whatever you’re working on into a respectable state - and then get that shit out in the world! Push it!
Be ok with the fact that it’s probably going to suck and then get to work molding it into what you want it to be.
If it works, great! If it doesn’t, move on.
But don’t get stuck in the perfection trap.
Push your work.
2.) Seth Godin 🫣 on a great way to hide
“Quality”, if you wanna be a perfectionist, is a great way to hide...someone who doesn’t want to ship their work is going to stand behind perfectionism. But perfectionism has nothing to do with perfect. And perfect doesn’t have a lot to do with quality. Quality is defined as “meets spec”. Reliably does what it’s supposed to do, when it’s supposed to do it.
Seth Godin
“Perfectionism” is a wonderful excuse to never share your genius.
But guess what? The world doesn’t need perfect, it needs real.
Every moment spent holding back out of fear is a moment denying someone else the chance to be inspired by what you create.
Don’t wait until you’re ready. That’s just another delaying tactic.
Push your work and know that it’s the act of sharing is what makes your work matter.
3.) the worst prison in the world ⛓️ according to Sahil Bloom
4.) a nudge 😌 to end with
You know that work you haven’t pushed yet? That idea you’ve kept on the shelf?
Stop being so damn selfish!
You’re preventing at least one person’s life from changing for the better.
So put it out there. Make it exist.
Then watch the magic happen.
AI Image of the Week 🤖 🎨
Seth Godin and Sahil Bloom standing on a mountain shooting their ideas out into the world with a t-shirt gun
Two last things for you this week:
Push an idea you know is imperfect. Then get to work on it.
Be fire and wish for the wind 🔥
With love,
Chris
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