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Three Rules

Reject Perfection

Three Rules

Matt D'Avella

Advice, Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Documentary, Selfhelp, Howto, Health & Fitness, Tv, Health, Self-help

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Caroline Lee is a photographer & podcaster that wants you to ship your ideas. As she explains, we learn the most when we’re constantly creating & releasing our work. For many of us the problem comes when we spend too much time with a project. We labor over every detail, each pixel, until it’s perfect. The problem? Perfect doesn’t exist.

Caroline makes a wonderful case for rejecting perfectionism. We also reminisce about the first time we cursed, tell awkward stories about nude spa’s & how to break through the noise in 2018.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I think sometimes the people who we see as great artists or great creators, a lot of times

0:06.9

they're actually not the best that's out there.

0:09.4

It's just that they're the best at putting their work out there and having it be seen.

0:13.7

Some of the best creators and artists in the world are people that haven't even been discovered

0:19.1

because they're not promoters. They're not people who know how to market themselves or maybe they haven't even been discovered because they're not promoters.

0:21.2

They're not people who know how to market themselves,

0:23.6

or maybe they don't even have the confidence to put their work out.

0:28.7

Caroline Lee is a podcaster and photographer that wants you to ship your ideas.

0:33.5

She says that we learn the most when we're constantly creating and releasing our work.

0:38.5

For many of us, the problem comes when we spend too much time with a project.

0:42.3

We labor over every detail, each pixel, until it's perfect.

0:47.6

The problem?

0:49.3

Perfect doesn't exist.

0:51.1

In our conversation today, we discuss what it takes to make great art when feedback is

0:55.4

important. We tell awkward stories about nude spas and how to break through the noise in 2018.

1:03.4

But before that conversation, let us do some housekeeping. I'm starting to take questions on

1:09.2

this podcast. The most common emails that I get are from

1:11.9

creatives asking me for advice about their specific struggles. If you have a question, if you're a

1:16.8

filmmaker, creative and artist, and you want to send, get my advice and my guest advice, send a video

1:23.0

of your question under two minutes to hello at matt deavela.com.

1:29.4

I look forward to hearing from you.

1:30.8

If you don't know how to spell my last name, D-A-V-V as in Victor, E-L-L-A.

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