Student: I want to start this project, but I don’t know what to do. I am confused.
Teacher: What do you know about the project?
Student: I know a few things about the project.
Teacher: What can you do with it?
Student: I can start working on 1 part of the project.
Teacher: Then start.
Student: But after that?
Teacher: Just take 1 step; the rest of the path will appear.
Nowadays, perfectionism is seen as something that is a must-have, but what is the cost of it?
You want to try something, but the pressure of perfectionism makes it harder to start, and as a result, the idea just remains an idea in the mind.
Trying to optimize everything, wanting all the answers before starting, overthinking each step, and making everything look perfect are just creating unnecessary pressure and taking the fun out of the process.
Doing something takes less energy than thinking about doing something.
Start with whatever you have, wherever you are and whatever you can do. Doing something is much better than doing nothing. Doing something will give you feedback that you can use next time when you do the task, and that’s how you learn and grow, not by living in your head.
You can’t learn swimming by thinking about swimming. You need to get into the water.
So the moral of the story is that you don’t need all answers right from the beginning. You need to start walking, and a path will appear.