Most businesses are not about coming up with a brand-new, fantastic, never-tried-before, first-time-ever-on-the-planet idea. Most businesses are about a solid business model that delivers good quality and value to a consumer, who you can identify, and do it over and over again.

• business

The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet.)

• self improvement
• practice

This is the source.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

• progress
• perfection

Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance.

• worry

Persistence in the face of a skeptical authority figure is a powerful ability.

• persistence

It's easy to assume that vivid emotions spring from the truth. I'm not so sure. They often come from fear and confusion and well-told stories.

• anger
• emotion

This is the source.

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

• criticism
• initiative
• creativity

A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

• persistence
• focus