Comments on: Breaking through the mental block http://chrisjmears.com/2009/05/breaking-the-mental-block/ Web Developer in Ruby on Rails and CakePHP Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:22:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Erik http://chrisjmears.com/2009/05/breaking-the-mental-block/comment-page-1/#comment-1050 Erik Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:24:29 +0000 http://chrisjmears.com/?p=169#comment-1050 Hey! I've seen you a couple times on Aardvark (I went to school with Apurva!) and I thought I'd check out your blog. I am starting a Startup myself, have been working on it for the last year, so I'm definitely on the "Motivation Is Important" page too. I feel like I have a lot more questions about it than answers. But I'll check out the TAL episode... FWIW, here's my delicious inspiration tag: http://delicious.com/erikp/inspiration Hey! I’ve seen you a couple times on Aardvark (I went to school with Apurva!) and I thought I’d check out your blog.

I am starting a Startup myself, have been working on it for the last year, so I’m definitely on the “Motivation Is Important” page too. I feel like I have a lot more questions about it than answers. But I’ll check out the TAL episode…

FWIW, here’s my delicious inspiration tag: http://delicious.com/erikp/inspiration

]]> By: Jason http://chrisjmears.com/2009/05/breaking-the-mental-block/comment-page-1/#comment-959 Jason Tue, 05 May 2009 16:56:09 +0000 http://chrisjmears.com/?p=169#comment-959 In a similar vein, writer, podcaster, and all around cool geek chick <a href="http://murverse.com" rel="nofollow">Mur Lafferty</a> has made a mantra out of the dictum that "It's okay to suck." It gets repeated pretty often on her podcast <a href="http://ishouldbewriting.com" rel="nofollow">I Should Be Writing</a> (which, by the way, is great listening). I guess the idea is that doing something and sucking at it is still better than doing nothing, because then you at least learn from your mistakes. I'm still working on trying to follow that bit of advice. In a similar vein, writer, podcaster, and all around cool geek chick Mur Lafferty has made a mantra out of the dictum that “It’s okay to suck.” It gets repeated pretty often on her podcast I Should Be Writing (which, by the way, is great listening). I guess the idea is that doing something and sucking at it is still better than doing nothing, because then you at least learn from your mistakes. I’m still working on trying to follow that bit of advice.

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