Utkarsh Narang argues that waiting for perfection paralyzes you. Being 80% decided is enough to launch. Release an imperfect idea, get real feedback, and iterate from there instead of endlessly refining before you start.
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You're familiar with the term analysis paralysis. We just have a tendency to kind of like just overanalyze. But I think one of the reasons why I wrote Dwelling in a Place of Yes was because I didn't want to be this, this constant analytical state. There's another saying that, you know, 80— the 80/20 rule, right? 80% of the way there is good enough. Being 80% of the way decided and, you know, having thoughtful reasoning behind that 80% certainty, that's enough to certainly, certainly if you're like, you know, launching a business or something like that, right? You know, we just have a tendency to like, you know, you have this thing and you wanna keep tweaking it and tweaking it until it's absolutely perfect. But in reality, the best idea, the best approach I think is to get your most of the way there idea out into the world, see how people respond to it, and then you can iterate on it from there. It doesn't have to be perfectly finished, perfectly polished. And being uncomfortable with that uncertainty or being comfortable with that ambiguity and that uncertainty. Looking back on our life, you know, there were so many moments where you hesitated, you didn't get out as quickly as you could have. It didn't hold you back ultimately, right? It didn't. But like, you could have been quicker.