When you are first learning or perfecting a skill, whether it be baking, archery, or public speaking, it is easy to get stuck in the cycle of analysis paralysis. You want to learn as much as you possibly can before you actually do the task, but you end up wasting time preparing yourself instead of just trying to do it.
Major League Baseball pitchers don't throw a perfect game every time they play, so why do you expect to be perfect all the time?
Jonathan Fields recently wrote an excellent piece on how the key to getting better at something is to make more bad stuff.
That is a powerful message. In a world filled with perfectionists who don't want to share what they've created with anyone unless they think it is perfect, the best way to get better is actually with hands-on practice. And the best way to practice is by trying over and over again until you stop failing miserably.
Jonathan uses the example of building a guitar, but wanting the first one to be perfect.
'Go and make a really bad guitar.' Stop waiting around, go buy a kit and do it. Today.
The first one...will be bad. Maybe really bad. But you'll learn more making one bad guitar than you will waiting to do something and then taking a course that teaches you how to do it right. You'll understand a lot more
- Jonathan Fields
相关单词：paralysis
paralysis解释：n.麻痹(症)；瘫痪(症)
paralysis例句：
The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。
The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。
相关单词：pitchers
pitchers解释：大水罐( pitcher的名词复数 )
pitchers例句：
Over the next five years, he became one of the greatest pitchers in baseball. 在接下来的5年时间里，他成为了最了不起的棒球投手之一。
Why he probably won't: Pitchers on also-rans can win the award. 为什麽不是他得奖：投手在失败的球队可以赢得赛扬奖。
相关单词：miserably
miserably解释：adv.痛苦地；悲惨地；糟糕地；极度地
miserably例句：
The little girl was wailing miserably. 那小女孩难过得号啕大哭。
It was drizzling, and miserably cold and damp. 外面下着毛毛细雨，天气又冷又湿，令人难受。 来自《简明英汉词典》
相关单词：kit
kit解释：n.用具包，成套工具；随身携带物
kit例句：
The kit consisted of
The captain wants to inspect your kit.船长想检查你的行装。
相关单词：radically
radically解释：ad.根本地，本质地
radically例句：
I think we may have to rethink our policies fairly radically. 我认为我们可能要对我们的政策进行根本的反思。
The health service must be radically reformed. 公共医疗卫生服务必须进行彻底改革。
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