What skill taught you how to fail? A few months back I was…
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What skill taught you how to fail?
A few months back I was convinced I had figured out pizza. Bought the good flour, got the setup dialed in, watched every video. First real attempt came out soggy, pale, and kind of embarrassing. I genuinely thought about just ordering delivery forever and calling it a day.
But something about that failure bothered me in a useful way. Not in a crushing way, more like an itch I couldn't leave alone. So I made another one. Then another. Each one a little less bad.
The thing nobody tells you about picking up a hard skill is that the gap between where you start and where you want to be feels humiliating at first. You see what good looks like and your version is nowhere near it. That gap used to make me quit things. This time I just kept showing up to it.
Now the pizzas are actually good. Not perfect, still working on the base, but people ask me to make them. That would have sounded absurd six months ago.
The skill itself almost doesn't matter. What changed was my relationship to being bad at something. Failing at something small taught me I could fail at bigger things and survive it.
Anyone else pick up something frustrating and just refuse to let it beat you? Curious what it was.
#inspiration
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A few months back I was convinced I had figured out pizza. Bought the good flour, got the setup dialed in, watched every video. First real attempt came out soggy, pale, and kind of embarrassing. I genuinely thought about just ordering delivery forever and calling it a day.
But something about that failure bothered me in a useful way. Not in a crushing way, more like an itch I couldn't leave alone. So I made another one. Then another. Each one a little less bad.
The thing nobody tells you about picking up a hard skill is that the gap between where you start and where you want to be feels humiliating at first. You see what good looks like and your version is nowhere near it. That gap used to make me quit things. This time I just kept showing up to it.
Now the pizzas are actually good. Not perfect, still working on the base, but people ask me to make them. That would have sounded absurd six months ago.
The skill itself almost doesn't matter. What changed was my relationship to being bad at something. Failing at something small taught me I could fail at bigger things and survive it.
Anyone else pick up something frustrating and just refuse to let it beat you? Curious what it was.
#inspiration
source
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