You Will Always Suck at What You Do, Until You Do This
You Will Always Suck at What You Do, Until You Do This
The uncomfortable truth about success that no one tells you.
Your first 100 blog posts will mostly suck.
Your first 100 podcasts will mostly suck too.
Your first 100 talks will not be perfect.
Your first 100 videos will be nightmares.
Nobody can pick up a ball and become a pro basketball player overnight.
Nobody can pick up a pen, then write and win a Pulitzer Prize right away. Nobody is interesting during their first interview.
Nobody will walk on the stage without saying a few things wrong.
Nobody learns how to walk after the first step.
We all suck in the beginning.
But… Children can do what most adults fail to do. We always think children are clueless. They need our guidance to figure out life. But they know things that most of us have forgotten.
We don't become better by giving up. We keep trying.
Do babies stop trying to learn to walk after falling the first time? No, they keep trying.
That is why everything seems to be possible when you were a child. There was no ego. You only see a finish line and you want to cross it.
I didn't get a million views on my first blog post. My family said I am so bad at writing, they still don't read anything I write to this day. But I still write. Because the worst case is the world will hate it. If I don't try, I will never find out what they think. Because I cannot write, I read every top post about a topic before I write an article. Because I suck, I do things other people don't.
I have hosted a minimum of 500 chats before I had my first trending chat. There were nights where nobody showed up and I still asked the questions. I stayed in every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday to work while everyone else was out. People didn't notice that. Before I created trends, I was a follower.
I showed up until I figured things out. And I still show up to this day.
The smartest people are usually not the most successful people. They have big egos and always believe they deserve better.
The truth is no matter how smart you are.
WE ALL SUCK IN THE BEGINNING.
Failure isn't final, it's the first step to success.
Most people give up right away. A few people stick around until they get it right. It means nothing if you are good at something but adding no value. It is better to show up every day and try.
We suck and it is fine.
People will try to bring you back to their level whether it is related to our attempts at doing something new to help us be more successful, changing our drinking/eating habits, etc. Don't let others projections of you or their fears of your succeeding at something while they stay behind due to fear (or whatever may hold one back) hold you back. Another simple way to say the above. "Don't let others define you, define yourself." That's what kids do up to a point before adults and society beats (not literally) it out of them.
Yes Cammi, everyone starts at zero. Not everyone gets to 100, and love the analogy to kids will try cause they lack the ego that would hold them back.