Instead of saying, “I’m stuck, I can’t come up with anything good,” it’s far more effective to say, “I’ve finished this, and now I need to make it better.” Or possibly, “I finished this, and it can’t be made better, but now I’m ready to do the new thing, because look at all I’ve learned.” This is the story of every human innovation. This is the story of every good idea, every new project, every pop song, every novel. There was a bad idea. And then there was a better one. If you want to complain that you don’t have any good ideas, please show me all your bad ideas first.
