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Showerthought: That YouTuber who said "just start building" was dead wrong for me
I spent 6 months following this guy's advice to just throw stuff out there without a plan. Ended up with 40 half-finished projects on my hard drive and zero people actually looking at any of them. Then my buddy Dave who runs a local SEO agency told me to pick one single format and stick with it for 3 months. Finally started seeing traction after week 4. Has anyone else had a mentor call them out on being too scatterbrained?
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carter.julia3d ago
Took me a full year to admit I was doing the same thing. Jumped from longform videos to shorts to written posts to podcasts all in the same week because shiny object syndrome hit hard. Dave sounds like my old coding bootcamp instructor who literally sat me down and said "pick a lane or you'll drown in ideas." The magic came when I forced myself to delete 30 of those half-baked projects and focused purely on one weekly newsletter format for 8 weeks straight. That's when people started actually replying instead of just scrolling past. Your brain will fight you at first because starting something new feels exciting while finishing feels boring. But boring gets results man.
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casey9433d ago
Yeah I gotta push back on this a little @carter.julia. Not because boring doesn't work, but because forcing yourself to delete stuff and pick one lane too early can kill the experimentation that actually teaches you what you're good at. The magic I've seen comes from letting yourself be messy for a while, then picking the one thing that naturally has the most traction (not the one that feels safest to commit to).
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