{"id":363,"date":"2020-09-29T06:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T06:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umamexico.com\/licenciaturas\/?p=363"},"modified":"2020-09-29T06:22:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T06:22:15","slug":"the-art-of-imperfect-action-think-less-and-do-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uno.umamexico.com.mx\/wp69\/2020\/09\/29\/the-art-of-imperfect-action-think-less-and-do-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art Of Imperfect Action: Think Less And Do More."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fuente: RADAR – A KAOSPILOT MAGAZINE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 RADAR -Im in conversation with a friend recently as she tells me about her housemates, who have for months debated the need for a better coffee system in their shared kitchen. Their coffee machine is broken. My frustration mounts as I listen, wondering why, instead of spending time talking about it, they haven\u2019t just bought a new coffee machine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t help but think, beyond coffee machines, how many ideas are never acted on, how many words spoken are never matched with action, and how many attempts at producing something never make it to an audience? Consider for moment how much time we spend sitting in meetings \u2014 time spent thinking about, talking about and planning action, instead of just doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planning is important. Planning is at times also entirely necessary. So is attention to the finer details. But when does planning and detail orientedness become overkill, and merely a way to procrastinate on or forgo the action altogether?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship. \u2013 Seth Godin <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll admit I\u2019m guilty of it. I regularly sit in on (or worse, host) meetings that result in a lot of talk and very little action. I can also find myself forever refining an email or article before releasing it. Or else, putting it off for later, often meaning never. Experience tells me the work doesn\u2019t get better with overwork. Suppose there\u2019s that tiny typo or a sentence that could have been worded differently. There is a better chance of success if I release something imperfect than if I release nothing at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nike may have got it right with the catchphrase \u201cJust Do It\u201d, but is it that simple?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things take the time you give them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe the biggest problem standing in the way of our making moves is the modern luxury of having too much time to think. If given the chance, we overwork things: endlessly editing, refining, tweaking. It\u2019s possible that an equal amount of creative genius could come out of three hours of work, that would equally, if given the time, come out of three days worth of work. Parkinson\u2019s law is the adage that \u201cwork expands so as to fill the time available for its completion\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider the concept of Startup Weekend, where people come together to build and launch businesses in just 54 hours. The premise of Startup Weekend is simply to gather enough information to get out of the building in order to test a concept or idea. Once tested, you return to the drawing board with your newfound insights, aware of how to tweak your idea and what further information you now need. At the end of the 54 hours, you have a tested and tangible prototype that is possible to iterate on instead of trying to get it right the first time. More time doesn\u2019t by default equal a better end result. Entrepreneurs can spend a year building something before knowing they have a first customer. Alternatively, you can in just 54 hours, prototype of a concept built from the inputs of your intended first customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety \u2013 sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn\u2019t what\u2019s important \u2013 facing it is. \u2013 Julien Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crush the flinch.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it\u2019s not too much time, it\u2019s too much thinking that gets in the way of my hitting send or pressing publish, stopping me from producing and releasing works into the world. A flinch is something beneath the surface of our inaction. A flinch could be \u201cwho am I to write this article?\u201d. There\u2019s something about the action I perceive as dangerous, difficult or unpleasant and therefore shy away from. Likely it\u2019s tapping into my greatest doubts, fears and insecurities, and so the action is halted. My task, when I\u2019m stuck in a project, is to identify the flinch (the thing getting in the way of my moving forward) and to crush it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author Julien Smith who wrote The Flinch says that \u201cBehind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety \u2013 sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn\u2019t what\u2019s important \u2013 facing it is.\u201d Maybe the thing I\u2019m working on will never be fully ready, or it\u2019s the case that I<\/em> will never feel fully ready. Either way, facing and ultimately crushing the flinch moves me one step closer to taking the action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the words of Seth Godin, \u201cSHIP\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.\u201d says marketing guru, Seth Godin, in his bestselling book Linchpin. What if we were more willing to fail? To put works out before they were perfect and to truly learn by doing? What if we got more comfortable in releasing work before it feels finished? Ideas and projects die at the hands of people who think just one more tweak, one more proofread, one more change is needed before putting that project out into the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We grow a belief in our ability to do something by doing it. A CEO doesn\u2019t know how to be a CEO until they are one. I don\u2019t get confident as a writer unless I write. So sure, I might not feel the most confidently about something I\u2019ve never done before, naturally, but I get confidence by shipping. Better to leap into the unknown with shaky legs the first few times, than to not go there at all. Momentum comes from motion and the action, in the end, rarely ends up being the daunting task my mind makes it out to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next time you come up against yourself in the quest to hit send, publish, or whatever it may be, get out of your own way and Just Do It \u2013 set the time frame, crush the flinch and then SHIP. What makes something truly intriguing is its imperfection, the mark that it has come from an imperfect human. Let it be less about getting it right and more about getting it done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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