I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for not to drive to work.

Okay, so today I have an interesting topic. It is what is known as success paralysis.

So I'm going to explain what it is and explain how it applies to magic and magic design.

Okay, so explain it. Let me first talk about how it came up.

So I, as I'm recording this, I am starting up after my, after my holiday break. Over the

holiday break, I ran a head-to-head that was about possible changes to commander.

And one of the feedbacks I got from a bunch of people was,

commanders in such a good place, why are we talking about changing it?

Why are we even having conversations about, you know, it's not broke, don't fix it.

You know, it's in a good place, so leave it alone.

And what I made me realize is that I think it might be a falling victim to something

known as success paralysis.

So I wanted to talk about that and talk about how it's impacted magic and something that

it is a concern that we had to been worried about in magic design.

So let me explain to what success paralysis is.

So the idea is you make something and it is successful.

Okay.

So what happens is if you ever heard me, I always talk about how restrictions breed creativity.

But I have another saying that I say a lot, which is success breeds repetition.

And what I mean by that is when you do something and it is successful, there's a lot of encouragement to repeat those things,

because they were successful.

And one of the biggest things that happens

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