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An Idea Nagging You

An Idea Nagging You

Here’s my piece of advice, and I think, why I jotted this passage down.

If an idea is nagging you and you can’t seem to let it go – pursue it.

At the very least, give it a chance.

Maybe you fail, but at least you can know for sure and move on then.

I have seen a version of this done in regard to blogging.

Start a personal blog. Then start side blogs in niche ideas as you have them. Keep posting on the personal site. Side-blog projects that catch on become their own business or get sold. Side blog projects that fail get folded back into the personal blog. Repeat.

Here, I like the idea of small bets (below).

I CONTINUED TO PURSUE my studies and half believed I might try for a doctorate in philosophy and become a teacher, as teaching is, after all, a form of show business. I’m not sure what the purpose of fooling myself was, but I toyed with the idea for several semesters. I concluded that not to continue with comedy would place a question in my mind that would nag me for the rest of my life: Could I have had a career in performing? Everything was dragging me toward the arts; even the study of modern philosophy suggested that philosophy was nonsense.

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up (Amazon)

– You read 100 books. 99 are meh, 1 changes your life.

– You try 100 things. 99 don't work, 1 changes your life.

– You meet 100 people. 99 you never see again, 1 changes your life.

Life is more random than it seems. Act accordingly.

— Daniel Vassallo (@dvassallo) November 11, 2021

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