Designing rides taught me something uncomfortable about…
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Designing rides taught me something uncomfortable about fear and moving forward
Every ride I have ever worked on goes through a phase where it looks genuinely unfinished and wrong. The structure is up, the track is there, but nothing connects yet and it looks like it could never possibly work. Early in my career that phase used to mess with my head. I would stare at the drawings and wonder if I had made a catastrophic miscalculation somewhere.
What I learned, slowly and through a lot of scrapped nights, is that the uncomfortable middle stage is not a sign of failure. It is just what building something real actually looks like up close. The mess is not the exception. It is part of the process.
People talk about motivation like it is supposed to feel clean and linear. In my experience the work that ends up mattering most had a stretch in the middle where it looked like nothing was coming together. You push through that stretch not because you feel confident but because you remember why you started building in the first place.
The rides I am most proud of all had that ugly middle phase. So did most worthwhile things I have done outside of work. The circumstances are temporary. The structure holds if the foundation is right.
Anyone else find that the hardest part of a big goal is that inbetween stretch where you cannot see progress yet?
#inspiration
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Every ride I have ever worked on goes through a phase where it looks genuinely unfinished and wrong. The structure is up, the track is there, but nothing connects yet and it looks like it could never possibly work. Early in my career that phase used to mess with my head. I would stare at the drawings and wonder if I had made a catastrophic miscalculation somewhere.
What I learned, slowly and through a lot of scrapped nights, is that the uncomfortable middle stage is not a sign of failure. It is just what building something real actually looks like up close. The mess is not the exception. It is part of the process.
People talk about motivation like it is supposed to feel clean and linear. In my experience the work that ends up mattering most had a stretch in the middle where it looked like nothing was coming together. You push through that stretch not because you feel confident but because you remember why you started building in the first place.
The rides I am most proud of all had that ugly middle phase. So did most worthwhile things I have done outside of work. The circumstances are temporary. The structure holds if the foundation is right.
Anyone else find that the hardest part of a big goal is that inbetween stretch where you cannot see progress yet?
#inspiration
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