Last week I wrote my second article for Quartz! At the heart of this article is the idea that to do amazing things, you need to lower the bar, not raise it.
The article argues that when you are trying to accomplish something big you need to narrow your efforts way down- you need to engage in a series of small experiments. To do that you need to:
- Understand that change happens in moments. There is no sweeping, singular solution. You need to find the individual moments that are creating your reality and fix them.
- Change one moment at a time, and do it in the smallest way possible at first. Don’t make a huge commitment to any idea until yo have some evidence that it works!
- Expect failure whenever you are doing something new! Productive failure is the source of all sustainable success in the world! It’s at the heart of how any expertise is ever built (i.e. playing the piano, counting cards, coding in SQL), including all scientific knowledge!
This article was fun for me to write and I’m excited to report that Quartz has asked me to write once a month! Hooray!
