Robbie Swale argues you shouldn't wait for inspiration to start practicing. Frame small regular habits around who you want to become, like 12 minutes a week. He shares how he once misattributed a quote to Steven Pressfield, then realized he'd paraphrased his own writing, proving the point: start first, inspiration follows.
I think a lot about practice. And, you know, really the one frame, one way to frame that would be who's the person you want to become? That kind of thing you're talking about. How do you live your legacy? Like, what's one way you can practice doing that even for 12 minutes a week? But when— so that's like the kind of answer that comes to mind. But the other thing that came into my mind when you were saying that, when you were talking about a tip, is I had this funny experience with my book, which is that I had this— I had a Steven Pressfield quote at the start because I loved The War of Art, made a huge difference to me. And when I was publishing the book, I thought I better check this quote and I couldn't find it and I had no idea what it was like. How, how have I possibly misquoted this and where could I— where is it? And I read The War of Art pretty much again and Googled loads and couldn't find it. And then I realized that it was actually— I was quoting myself, not Steven Pressfield, that I'd written once about Steven Pressfield and I'd kind of taken something he said and boiled it down to a different a different sentence. And he says it, he talks about muses and angels in the end of The War of Art. And the way that I changed that, and this is a really important thing to me, that what I'd written that I thought was Pressfield but it turned out was Swale was, um, our inspiration is always around us, um, and it's only when we make a start that we let inspiration in. So that's the other thing. It's like, we don't, don't wait for the inspiration, make the start.
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