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Jan 14, 2021
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Dare to Suck
I thought this article had some interesting thoughts: https://medium.com/@cjmacdonald_14717/dare-to-suck-a437494682a5

Pull quote: “Strangely, I learned a lot about creativity from someone who is very different than I am. A man named Steven Tyler, who happens to be the lead singer of Aerosmith. I had the experience of sitting next to him and talking about the creative process. And he told me that Aerosmith has this ritual of once a week having a band meeting called Dare to Suck. Dare to suck, I thought? What could this possibly be? And Tyler said, ‘Each one of us brings an idea that we think is probably terrible, and that we are embarrassed that we even have the idea. But we present it. And nine times out of ten, the idea is actually terrible. But one time out of ten you get Dude Looks Like a Lady or Love in an Elevator.’ And I thought to myself, ‘That is an amazing way to approach the creative process. It is fearless.’ So, when you are writing, or doing anything creative, dare to suck. Dare to be terrible first. Trust me, every single writer is bad sometimes. Those are all the parts of the book that they delete so that you don’t have to read them. When you buy a book, you are not paying for the words on the page, you are paying for all the things that the author deleted that made the final copy great. You can always identify a serious writer by looking at the delete key on their keyboard. It is demolished. You can barely see the letters. It is just faded from hitting it so many times.” Author Dan Brown
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