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(machine whirring)
- If you can't do it
right, don't do it at all.
I hear this phrase and phrases
like it thrown around a lot.
(wood thumping)
I understand the sentiment.
If you've been hired to
paint somebody's house,
it's the common understanding
that you're gonna try to do the best job
that you possibly can.
To try to do a bad job would
be ridiculous and unethical.
But doing the best you
can is very different
than doing a good job.
Because if you suck at something
or you've never done it before,
it's not going to be good,
and there's nothing you can do about it.
You know, this probably
makes sense to you.
It probably makes a lotta
sense to most people.
But everybody lives as
if they don't believe it.
They don't think that it applies to them.
For instance, they won't go to the gym
because they're weak and they think
that everybody at the gym will be watching
how weak they are, how pathetic they are.
They feel like they're going
to be judged for being weak
and never having gone to the gym.
Like they think they're
supposed to already be jacked,
or they go to the gym to
kinda prove to everybody
they're not that weak.
But it's like, bro, you're
not strong, and that's okay.
You know, people won't do
piano lessons as an adult
because some freak kid from
their third grade class
was playing Rachmaninoff
shortly after exiting the womb.
It's like we do anything
we can to run from the fact
that we're probably gonna
suck at most things,
and we don't want anyone to find out.
And honestly, it makes perfect sense
why we have a tendency to do this.
When we were kids, we'd
get made fun of at school
for being bad at kickball
or for running slow
or for having acne.
And sometimes we'd get made fun of
for being good at something,
but that thing happened to be nerdy,
like playing the trombone.
So whatever it is, we
adapted to our environment.
We hid our talents and our weaknesses,
and we sort of just flew
under the radar to blend in.
As a kid, we developed a mental framework
that guarded us from
humiliation, discomfort,
and social scrutiny.
The problem is that this coping mechanism
made a lot of sense for
that specific environment.
It served a function that
was useful at the time.
But problems start to arise
when we remain unconscious
to the fact that we made that
mental framework so early.
Problems start to arise when
we bring a mental framework
or a philosophy from one environment
into another environment,
even though it may not be
applicable or helpful any longer.
So many of us still act and
think like school children
when we haven't been in school in decades.
We remain terrified of social scrutiny,
and it prevents us from doing anything
that we aren't already good at,
which I mean, if we've been
thinking this way since school,
we're probably not good at much.
We don't wanna be made
fun of for not being good
or successful, but made of by who?
Where did these people go?
The people are gone, obviously,
but their judgment remains,
bouncing around our head.
And if we are unconscious of it,
it'll feel like our own rational thought.
When we think of doing
something that we want to do
or something that we wanna try out,
we'll find ourselves automatically
coming up with a reason
or an excuse as to why we can't do it
or why we'll do it tomorrow,
or we'll look for the perfect
timing to do something.
We find it very difficult to do things
that we aren't known for.
You know, we'll want to
get into photography,
so we watch some YouTuber
or 300 YouTubers trying
to find the best preset so
that your photos don't suck.
It's like, I can't get into boxing.
That isn't me.
People will think that's weird.
They'll say, "What's gotten into you?"
But it's like, who is saying that?
We like to pretend that our rationality
is this pure, infallible logic instead of
the survival instincts of a little kid
who's trying not to get hurt.
So let this be a reminder to you.
You can just do things.
(machine whirring)
Doesn't have to be good.
If you know that something is good for you
or if it's a skill you want to develop
or there's no serious
moral qualms with the thing
that you're about to do, then do it.
Most of the internal dialogue
that would prevent you
from doing what you
wanna do doesn't matter.
You can act anyways.
You can do things that are
uncomfortable or unnatural
or something that you
wouldn't normally do.
And if you've never done it before,
it's probably not gonna be good.
It was never going to be good.
And it never had to be.
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