Do Less, Better
Inspiration sparks the best ideas, creative process crystalizes them, and perspiration makes them come to life. Three parts of the value creation chain.
We startup founders are excellent at the perspiration part. We push and push, optimizing for a constant state of busyness, checking off more boxes than we did yesterday. Eliminating more gaps in our schedules in favor of "GSD" (getting shit done).
In doing so, we feel productive. We've been conditioned to "do more, faster". And that's not wrong, but the question is at what cost?
Inspiration and creativity require one thing: Space. The very thing that our quest for productivity would have us eliminate. We've been sold a line that we must hustle ad infinitum, and bought it wholesale with little awareness of the implications.
Nothing happens without perspiration. It is the core characteristic of successful founders, and foundational. But successful founders get that part, and then go too far.
With the way we glorify the hustle as founders and leaders, is it really a surprise that true inspiration and creativity have become so rare? Why everyone is just the "AirBnb for pet crates" or the "Uber for luggage"?
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