He was talking with a guy last week who speaks several languages. I asked him how he learned them all and said: "I'm not afraid to jump and make mistakes."
Great answer. It is a technique that works in the music so well. The more you embrace failure, the better you will do.
I work with a type of direct marketing that puts out stuff quickly, probably before it is ready, because he knows that getting it out "as is" you better not go at all. And the way is when it is released this way, if you're willing to test and improve, is the worst that could ever be.
If you want to see something funny, take a look at some of the old reviews for my first book.
Here is part one, which to my great frustration, always happens to be near the top.
You can read this book all in a few hours. font large font in a book already small, a lot of grammatical errors and missing words that were not caught by a spelling checker (no proofreading). It seems that this book was probably written over a weekend.
And it was true ... at least for the first edition. After that, I went back and got a much better editor to take care of these things.
But apart from this, the book was released, it sold well and helped a lot of people. Would never have happened if I had been reached on the little things and worried about negative reviews like this one.
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