Bad output

I stumbled upon an interesting tweet by Julian Shapiro. I know it’s a few months old but I liked it so I am sharing it here in case you find it useful too:

The most interesting thing I learned this year is this mental model for generating world-class writing. pic.twitter.com/RE0Rahk3ng

— Julian Shapiro (@Julian) November 15, 2020

To finally start creating good stuff you need to create a lot of bad stuff first. It applies to writing, but also to drawing —a drawing usually needs a few tries too. You draw your first idea, see that it doesn’t quite work, iterate on it, until you arrive at something good.