Noah McQueen argues that waiting to know everything before acting is impossible. The only way to grow is to fail forward: act despite uncertainty, fail quickly, learn, and try again until you can handle harder problems.
Put me back in my box, tell me when I'm wrong, and I'll fix it. Some of you are so afraid to take action because you don't know what you're doing that you never do anything. You don't do anything. I need to know everything I need to know before I can go do something. No, you don't. You're never gonna know everything. Every client that I meet brings me a new scenario that I haven't seen before. Well, not lately, but sometimes. You're never gonna know anything. Quit worrying about what you don't know and just go do it. Fail forward and do it faster. Because guess what? If you fail forward enough times, you're going to be okay. Because you'll stop failing and you'll just start figuring it out until you get into a harder and harder problem. Fail forward faster. It's okay to fail, guys. It is not okay to not try. Period.
