In both writing and design, I often find that in order to take a step forward, I must completely abandon everything I’ve already created. This means that either I start again from scratch, or I take the pieces of what I have and totally mangle them until I’ve arrived somewhere vastly different from where I began.
Why is this important? I find that little tweaks and edits are easy, but they rarely result in a huge step forward. Tweaks help optimize something into the best form it can be, but often, a much larger change can transcend the original work altogether. Yet these transformations can be difficult when you’re starting with something that has already been created. You’re hesitant to try new things because it feels like you’re ‘losing’ something if you start from scratch or erase key lines or words already on paper.
Becoming comfortable with destroying your own work to create something better is also metaphor for our minds as well. We are most capable of progress when we allow those ideas and opinions we held dear to be challenged, destroyed, and rebuilt, stronger than before.
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