Have you ever noticed that some of your best work was done a day or maybe even hours before the deadline?
You waited (procrastinated?) until the deadline was right in front of you and thrashed to complete what you needed to.
While deadlines may suck (they are never far away enough), the thrashing that they provoke is paramount.
An artist in any industry is really no better than you or me. The gap between us isn’t skill, it’s not the number of followers they have and we don’t, it’s not even the connections they inherited and we have not. What creates the gap is that they thrash more often.
Thrashing is that rush of complete productivity we get before being forced to have something produced, finished, shipped.
Most acknowledge this with a term paper that’s due tomorrow afternoon or that personal statement you have to write by April 13th – that you start on April 11th.
The difference between you and an artist is that the artist makes thrashing a habit, it’s done daily, and most importantly, it’s done without a deadline.
What do you say we start closing that gap?
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Garth E. Beyer
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