A short motivational monologue urging people who feel unready to start projects to persistently ask questions and gather information until uncertainty clears. The speaker uses the metaphor of swinging an ax at a tree to describe how repeated questioning chips away at confusion until a clear path (or a decision to stop) emerges.
Have you ever reached that point where you've got a project, you want to do it, but not quite ready to start? It's like not quite ready. Well, here's the thing you got to do. Keep asking questions, keep gathering data, because what will happen is you say, I just don't know enough to start. I don't know enough to start. Well, if you keep asking questions, if you keep your mind on it, you're eventually going to get there. Where you're internally, your subconscious will give you the go signal, like, let's go. Because the excite, you know, you'll. You'll never see it completely clear right from the beginning, but enough to see your light through the tunnel, it's like, oh, okay, that could work. We'll figure out the rest along the way. But it's like a, it's like a ax and a tree. If you keep asking questions, if you keep trying to figure, like, what are the unknowns? What are the things that I just don't know? The gray areas, the dark areas are holding me back. If you keep asking questions, it's like swinging that against the tree and eventually that tree is going to fall down. You keep asking questions, you keep getting your confusion cleared up. Eventually the light's going to come through that tunnel and it's going to be a ghost signal. Or you're going to say, ah, this is not really what I wanted to do. But regardless, the way you get the answer is by keeping yourself on the attack, asking questions.
