Many People Think Learning Works Like This

Thomas Frank is a serial entrepreneur who was previously featured in this newsletter when he earned over $1 million selling Notion templates

He recently tweeted…

Many people think learning works like this:

Learn and become ready → Do

The way it actually works:

Learn just enough to start → Do (badly) → Learn → Do (a little less badly) → Repeat

You’re never ‘ready’, but you jump in anyway.

In other words, the road to success goes through failure.

It’s tempting to get caught up in endless preparation, not actually starting anything because we’re afraid to make a mistake.

But if you can embrace making mistakes, you’ll learn much faster

Is there something you’ve been putting off starting for fear of making a mistake?

What if you started today and allowed yourself to do a bad job of it?