Why Trying to Be Perfect Won’t Help You Achieve Your Goals (and What Will)
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One example I like is the duolingo app. It will never turn you into a fluent or even good speaker of a new language. However, it makes you learn words which will more or less stick you after a while.
Once you get in a situation where you need to speak that language you will suck, but do a one week immersion and all that preliminary work you did will supercharge your speaking ability.
I mean I see a lot of people trying so many new ideas quickly and not sticking with anything for long. This is a recipe for disaster.
Many people have excellent ideas and spend too much time trying to perfect the first moves. Then, if/when they actually begin to execute and something unexpected happens they just abandon the project.