A short spoken monologue (by Mick Hunt) arguing that social media’s feedback loops push creators to seek premature validation, which distracts from completing deep work. The speaker advises keeping one’s head down, doing the work "when nobody is watching," avoiding early public drafts that invite misleading feedback, and only sharing finished work so it lands with impact.
Chapters
We live in a world where we are encouraged because of that social media feedback loop. We get that dopamine hit every time. We get a like or an engagement or a positive comment. Right? So we think that we need that. And now you become more focused on that, on the feedback, be it superficial or than actually accomplishing and doing the thing that you've set out to do. Right? So we too often are putting our babies, I like to call it, right. Whatever the thing is you're working on, we're putting our babies out into the world before it's ready. Don't worry about that. One of my mantras is it's the work you put in when nobody is watching that makes everybody pay attention. Later, the time will come, put your head down and stay in the lab. And when you are ready to show people what you've been working on, everybody's going to pay attention. Right? If you do it right. But along the way, we feel the need to say, hey, guys, I haven't posted in a while. I know you think I'm not doing anything. Look at my project, look at what I'm doing. Right? Let me give you an update. You don't need to do that. The baby's not ready. Now, before you know it, somebody's giving you feedback on something that's, that's not fully baked, not fully prepared. Now you think, oh, maybe I need to go in a different direction or I didn't get the feedback that I thought I would get from it, so now maybe I should pivot. Now I should change. No, you released it out into the world before it was ready.
