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Jason Fried · 2024-05-22 · source ↗ · whole document (10)

Struggle and Flow

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and start over. And try to get there quickly. So the struggle I mean, it is important to struggle through things in life. That's how you're going to get better and stuff, but I feel like it's also a sign sometimes to say this isn't working and you're probably not going to make it work and you're going to get more frustrated and the frustration's going to show up in the So kind of back off a little bit and then come back to it later. But again with the clean sheet. I'm not a big fan of like starting with something and working it to death until I get there. It's just time to go. Time to move on. And do you feel like that's general advice or do you feel like that that's Jason advice? I think it's only fair for anyone's advice to be about them, honestly. Now, whether or not you can use that advice or someone else can use that advice is up to them. But for me, my experience is my experience. I do what works for me

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and maybe that works for somebody else. So these are just ideas that's out in the world that someone might go, yeah, that's how I write. Or like, I didn't think I was justified in writing that way or I didn't think I could do it that way. But he's doing it that way, it gives me confidence that I can do it that way and that's kind of how I look at it. So I wouldn't tell you how to do it. Right. Who who might I say how you should write? Just how I write. Well, this really stands out as a as something that shows up in the way that you think about business and the way that you think about writing is just this sense of like feeling that flow. And it's just sort of step by step. It's like, is this the right flow? And there's just this sense presumably that you have in your body and your mind of like when you found that right idea that sort of slipstream. And then you can follow it. That's how it feels. I want to get into this effortless place where in in effect I don't really understand

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why things are coming out so well in a sense. Yeah. You know, like I'm I'm proud of the work at the end, but I don't really understand how I got there. Sometimes I read a sentence and I'll be really proud of it. And I'm like, that's a good sentence. I don't know where that came from. But it's really good and I'm proud of that sentence and that kind of propels me through to the next one and the next And then there's also an aesthetic though to when I look at what I'm writing. I can't exactly explain it, but I'll look at a sentence and I'll say, does that sentence look right? Like the letter forms, does it look right? Is it too jaggedy or does it feel right or are the other words too long and then too short and too like there's a there's something I try to get to where but it has to happen naturally is the point. Like I'm not going to replace a couple words because the shape of the word doesn't work for me as well. I want