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Modern Mentor

522 - How to Start a Huge Project in 4 Simple Steps

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Doing something perfectly is great, except when it keeps you from starting. First, make a cheap plan, then a fast plan, then a perfect plan, and then merge your plans into something actionable. Read the transcript at https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/productivity/project-management/how-to-start-a-huge-project-in-4-simple-steps Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts FOLLOW GET-IT-DONE GUY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetItDoneGuy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetItDoneGuy

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0:00.0

This is Steveer Robbins.

0:02.0

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:09.4

Today, we're going to deal with taking on projects so big that you don't even know what you don't know.

0:14.8

It might be a career change or a product launch or building a new app or establishing a social life or, well, in my case, it's building a building.

0:23.2

As you may know, I attended Burning Man this year.

0:25.3

It's a temporary city in the desert that exists for one week each year, and it's literally the size of a city,

0:30.3

and it's built by artists and engineers and mad scientists as a giant experiment in intentional community.

0:36.4

One day, of course, while riding a bicycle out in the

0:38.5

deep desert, inspiration struck. In 1993, the video game Mist came out, and when it was released,

0:45.2

it was immersive, it was beautiful, it was groundbreaking, and from the music to the storyline,

0:50.2

it held intrigue. In fact, I recently replayed it, and it holds up quite well.

0:54.9

Mist takes place on an island, and between solving puzzles, you often return to a beautiful

0:59.1

octagonal library in the middle of the island.

1:02.1

The library has these things called linking books, which are magical books that transition

1:06.8

you between different ages of the Mist universe.

1:10.2

My dream is

1:10.9

to recreate that

1:11.7

library at

1:12.8

Burning Man

1:13.5

out in the

1:14.3

desert.

1:15.3

There's only

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