The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this.

Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won’t follow you if they don’t believe you can get to where you say you’re going.

The connection economy rewards the leader, the initiator, and the rebel.

Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.

It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

There is no other way to change your physical reality but by changing your thoughts.