90% of everything you do will be crap:

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90% of everything you do will be crap.

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That’s Sturgeon’s law coined by American science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon. 

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He was commenting on how critics used to think science fiction was crap and infered that the majority of works in other fields also suck.

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Learned this for the first time in a book I read called ‘How to Live a Good life’ by Rolf Dobelli.

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It changed my perspective.

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Most of what you do in your life, whether it’s work, personal or family related, is useless.

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However, 10% of it is what determines if you live a good life or not.

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Most of what you do will suck.

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That’s ok.

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Don’t take yourself and everything you do so seriously because again, most of what you do will suck.

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It’s something I need to remind myself as I continue to write that most of this work will be terrible.

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As of today I have ~720 blog posts. That means 72 have been decent while the remaining have been shit.

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Cool.

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If I can create thousands of them over the course of my life, it means hundreds might be good.

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That would be pretty amazing considering all you need in life is one opportunity to hit.

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Sturgeon’s law reminds me that failing more frequently actually leads to more success.

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If you only take 10 chances, you have to hope that 1 hit really well.

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If you take 100, there’s a good chance 1 of the 100 will hit.

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So fail more often.

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Take more chances because as per Mr. Sturgeon, 90% of what you do will suck anyway.

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But if you increase your frequency of failure, your amount of success increases as well.

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