A short conversational transcript (YouTube) featuring Tim Davies and others discussing exploring creative ideas, career planning, and the value of progress over perfection. Speakers encourage trying ideas, iterating rather than waiting for perfection, and recognizing that abandoning some ideas early can be valuable.
Hopefully there's people listening, thinking, actually, I've got a book in me or there's a business I want to start or an idea I want to get out there or explore further. And sometimes it might help people explore an idea and go, actually, that's not going to work. And that's equally hugely valuable to not go down a blind alley.
Well, how many plans did you have before you ended up with the current business? I know my main career was plan A. Then I had an idea of plan B, plan C, plan D. Probably on ERF right now. Yeah.
And then it may well.
And probably evolve further in the future as well. It already has. Yeah. It's interesting, isn't it? You can strive for perfection, and if you focus too much on getting something perfect, you never actually make any progress. It's like, perfect is the enemy of good.
Yeah. That was when I wrote Mapping Motivation for Coaching. That was one of James's comp quotes that helped me. Perfection is the enemy of progress. He said, just, right, just get it down. Don't worry about grammar, spelling, just write. I was like, okay, this is liberating.
