Evan Carmichael says you build self-belief by doing the work, not thinking about it. Put in your first 10 to 30 hours, accept that early attempts will be bad, and keep going anyway. Mistakes like podcast errors don't matter if you keep creating.
The willingness to start and put in the 10, 20, 30 hours. Successful people just do it and expect to suck at the beginning. And the people who aren't as successful, they take a decade before they make the decision to do the first 10 hours. They just keep going. Like, you just keep going. You make a mistake? Cool. Keep going. Your podcast sucked? Keep going. You forgot to press record on an episode? That happened to me. Keep going. Like, go, go, go. If we get so caught up about how we screwed up today or how we screwed up yesterday, then we never make another thing where the momentum will happen if you continue to create. So self-belief, they just got started and they just kept going.
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