Risk is inevitable. It's all risky. It's risky in anything you do that in any creative work and no amount of preparation can completely protect you.

I'm going to share something with you. I want you to tell me that I'm wrong because I don't think you can.

And the thing is the beginning of anything is a tenuous

time, right? The beginnings of all things, getting anything substantial, certainly substantial

off the ground. That means taking all kinds of countless, tiny little decisions into

consideration first. Any one of those decisions might assume some vast, important way down

the road only if you are successful. Now, the danger here is twofold. On one hand, you can become

paralyzed by all the decisions that you need to make. They can start to steal life from the

project, whatever the medium or whatever it is

that you're working at whatever scale long before you've even started, right? Those tiny decisions

get in the way of you doing anything. What if I don't buy the domain name of every single

variant of my business's name and someone squats on one of them? I'll have to pay them thousands

of dollars in ransom one day. A friend of mine was talking about starting a book and he started to get employers involved and

wanted to copyright. Dude, you got a right. And on the other hand, you can also rush through

these initial decisions in your enthusiasm to get something going only to later realize that you may have doomed a project out of hastiness or you did something wrong at the beginning.

Now, this dilemma is particularly thorny in the face of inexperience, right?

When you're just starting out, you have very little basis, very little awareness or knowledge on which to decide which of these things are critical and which can be

tweaked later if things work out. This is the point of any project where you have to remind

yourself of two important things. First, risk is inevitable.

It's all risky. It's risky in anything you do that in any creative work and no amount of

preparation can completely protect you. That is a myth that we are taught by a lie that we

are sold to by suckers who are trying to get us not to do the thing that we want to do in life.

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