Confidence · 4 min

Do the first repetition

The first attempt is information. It is also usually worse than the second, which is the point.

How to do it

  1. Choose the skill and the smallest complete version of it — one dish, one paragraph, one call.

  2. Decide in advance that this attempt is allowed to be poor.

  3. Do it once, from beginning to end, without stopping to research.

  4. Write down the one thing you would change next time.

You now know something about the task that no amount of preparation would have told you.