Creator advice for overcoming failurefrom @anushcache

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So you wanna make cool things on the internet maybe videos, a newsletter, meme page something of your own better everything that you make sucks and the problem is that the successful people do it so well better then when you try doing it it looks pretty bad. And then you get really demotivated and you stop trying until eventually you suddenly have a burst of inspiration and you try again and then you see how much you suck and then you just go back into it. And you're stuck in a cycle of trying better not getting good results. I'm gonna tell you how you can escape that cycle and make great things that don't suck. It's all a mental game, and it's important that you have the right mental tools to navigate sucking and failure. The first thing I wanna tell you about is the concept of the taste gap by Ira Glass. He talks about how when you're starting out creating something, you have really good taste. Like, you can look at something and know that that is really good or really well made, but then when you actually try making it yourself, it doesn't look good. And so your taste for what good things are and your ability to create good things have a big gap between them. So what do you do about it? Well, all you can do is really just keep doing it. If you just keep trying and doing things again and again, that taste gap is going to get smaller until eventually you are creating something really good quality that you're happy with. In a similar way, there is this analogy of the water tap. So if you want to use water from a tap and it hasn't been used in a really long time, first you have to turn on the tap so that all the worst water comes out and is drained worst, and then the good fresh water that you actually like and want to use will come out. The same thing goes for your creativity and things that you're trying. At first, you have to get all the bad ideas and all the shitty executions and all the things that suck out until eventually it will clear way to the inevitable clear and clean water that is the great work that you can create. And the third thing I wanna tell you about is this quote, which says the only purpose of the first draft is to exist. Your first draft is not going to be good. And if you expect it to be good, you're setting yourself up for failure. All the first draft needs to do is open that tap of your creativity tier be the first step in bridging that taste gap Ultimately if you want to create something cool and successful all you have to do is just keep trying It's not that you suck It's that you don't let yourself suck