Double your failure rate

You could spend 10,000 hours watching basketball, but if you’ve never shot hoops before, none of that studying is going to help you put the ball through the net.

The only thing that will make you a better shooter is practicing shooting.

You’d actually make more progress in 10 minutes of practice than you would in 10,000 hours of studying.

Experience is the ultimate teacher, and there is no substitute.

Yet, we tend to spend twice as much time thinking, analyzing, planning, and studying than we do actually getting out and doing whatever it is you’re trying to accomplish.

Want to be a better writer? Write!

Want to be a better designer? Design!

Want to be a better developer? Develop!

Want to make better videos? Make videos!

Sure, studying these things will help — and it’s not to say you should not prepare yourself at all — but at some point it’s just procrastination.

We all have a fear of failure that holds us back, but those who continue to try and fail will always end up much further ahead of those who never try at all.

“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate”
– Thomas Watson Jr, Former IMB CEO