No Idea is born fully formed or perfect, and that's very normal.
This is the initial 'test' edit of my book and what it looked like when it came back from the editors.
The editors chose 2-3 pages and did their initial work to show me their style and what it would be like to work together.
As you can see, there almost wasn't a word untouched.
Now, in my head - it was awesome. I had done an insane amount of work to this stage and committed a huge amount of passion, energy, time, and creativity. It was going straight to the New York Times No.1 best-seller list. Woo-Hoo - ready to rumble!
In reality, it was far from that - it was just the start. It was imperfect, messy, scrappy with some good bits and crap bits and plenty of blind spots.
💭 But that's ok - that's ALL initial ideas.
The challenge is being OK with sitting in this space with the idea you are so passionate and enthusiastic about (but it's awesome - I know it is!) and understanding that you need to open your ears and eyes to making your idea better.
It's that creative tension between wanting every idea to be perfect and launched yesterday (productivity!) and appreciating that no idea is ever born fully formed.
💥 It means letting go of perfection which can be tough and a bit of an ego challenge.
💥 It means realising we all have blind spots
💥 It means being highly curious about what others see, think and feel
💥 It means that slowing down may be the best way to speed up (feels very counterintuitive)
🦋 Innovation and bringing ideas into the world can be messy.
Understanding the idea we think is so amazing may need some help is at the heart of that messiness - and at the heart of delivering better products, services and solutions.
Side note - I continued to work with my editors and my book did very well 😁
#innovation #productivity #creativity #design #codesign
