Make It Till You Make It: 40 Myths & Truths About Creating

by Brendan Leonard

The fact is, it takes no mental or physical effort to have a dream, especially if you continually procrastinate the actual work it would take to realize that dream. Making something, on the other hand, and having the courage to put it out there, will require hours of trying, fucking up, re-doing, worrying if it’s good enough or true enough or exactly what you wanted to say in the first place, and more hours of trying, before you nervously send it out to whatever audience you believe needs it. And all that stuff is the scary part, which is why all those big ideas never get started in the first place and die at the bottom of a beer glass or under a pile of other stuff we think is “more important.”