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The Cathy Heller Podcast with Cathy Heller

The Reason We Don't Try New Things - Minisode

The Cathy Heller Podcast with Cathy Heller

Cathy Heller | QCODE

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.97.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Cathy shares a minisode about why we're afraid to test and experiment, how to get over your need for immediate perfection, and how to find the alignment between your gifts, your passion, and the thing that people need from you.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, it's Kathy. I just want to share an extra mini episode with you every single week because I want to be there for you.

0:05.6

I want to be there to encourage you. I want to be there to help you see things in a way that just feels like it's doable. Like you are so much closer than you really think and I want to show you

0:14.7

what possible so here's one of our minisodes I hope you like it take a listen and the

0:19.9

reason that we don't know is because we haven't we haven't gotten enough data

0:25.0

which means we haven't taken enough action. You can't steer from a parked car. So we need to test things and iterate and very quickly we know is it right or is it not right?

0:56.7

And when we wait and try to get that answer by overthinking it, we don't get that answer. We need to work on it, right? And part of the reason that people don't test things is because they have

1:05.4

shame, which they don't realize they have. They want to be perfect. They don't want people to see them in the process. They only want to put out finish perfect products. But it takes a second. You have to try it this way. Then you have to try it that way.

1:12.6

When Amazon started, they just sold books,

1:15.8

then they tried something else, then they tried something else.

1:18.2

There are so many businesses,

1:21.0

and those businesses are successful because they continue to try to see, do people want

1:27.8

Cherry Coke or vanilla Coke? Do people want vanilla Coke or cinnamon Coke? They have to keep trying. You have to keep going back and getting the

1:37.4

feedback. It's not failure, it's feedback. So that takes a minute.

1:43.9

It also takes a minute to figure out

1:46.5

what is actually the business idea, right?

1:50.6

Because yesterday we talked about an Eki guy and an achy guy is three things it's what you love what you're good at and what the world needs

1:58.1

So I'll tell you the story there was a guy who I had on the podcast he's a a potter. He makes pottery. His name is Brian Januski. He started a company that eventually became

2:07.6

Drippy Potts, is what it's called. And he was an artist. He wanted to make all- guard sculpture and because of that he was starving

2:17.0

because nobody wanted to buy his sculpture and he was going to stick with it. He wasn't making any money on it. And one day he made a few ice cream bowls. He made on his potter of the

2:34.4

all a few ice cream bowls and they they were a pastel

2:37.8

colors and they had this like drippy little lip to them that

2:41.6

looked like sort of the ice cream was dripping down on the bowl and somebody came to his house and said

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