Merlin Mann on Starting & Creativity
The Merlin Mann presentation at MaxFunCon (embedded below and available at The Sound of Young America) is an entertaining and insightful twenty seven minutes about starting and creativity.
The Sound of Young America: Merlin Mann
We probably all suffer from the inner awareness that we suck, that we’re really imposters and will be discovered oneday and die a lonely death with crap in our pants (pretty much Merlin’s words, not mine). The biggest lesson to learn about life – be OK with the idea that you suck sometimes, and just get started.
If you’ve never heard Merlin Mann’s presentations then you’re in for a treat because his irreverence for the subject matter (aka comedic qualities), and compounded experience in the getting started department, make him almost uniquely engaging as a presenter. How do you get started? Why it may be as simple as accepting that your fingers need to start before your brain will kick in, or that you need to accept you’re never going to know everything before you start something. At some point you’re just going to have to turn off that email client and start writing. There you might just be started.
Whatever you do for a living, I’d recommend you listen to Merlin’s presentation.
