Try and suck less:

Try and suck less.

We all suck.

We have no idea what we’re doing most of the time.

We’re making it up as we go.

We pretend like we know exactly what’s going to happen in the world, at our house or at our job, but we have no idea.

No one does.

The future is unpredictable.

You can plan for it, but it never happens the way you think.

Ever.

So how do you prepare for something that you can’t control?

You can’t.

But you can make small changes every day so that you suck less in the future.

Let’s use an example.

Say you’re trying to play the piano.

You’ve never played a piano in your life and your friend asks you to come play for him after you’ve had way too many drinks?

How would you play?

Terribly.

You would suck.

But if you did that again and again while controlling the effort you put into learning piano, you’ll suck less in the future.

That’s a fact.

Repetition makes the master.

The more time you spend doing something, the better you’ll be at it.

But it seems like no one has the time these days?

Bullshit.

We all have the time.

Everyone is given the same 24 hours. How you spend your time in those hours is up to you, but you can control a lot.

If you want to suck less, put in the time.

Commit to something and work on it for a while.

For the first few months or years, you’re gonna suck.

It’s ok.

Do you love doing it? Does it make you happy? Would you still do that thing if no one paid you for it?

Yea?

Then keep doing it.

Don’t listen to the noise.

The more people doubt you and question you, the stronger your conviction should be.

Keep working.

Keep improving.

Keep trying to suck a little less.

But you have to do the work.

You have to put in the time.

There’s no shortcut.

There’s no easy path to get there.

It’ll be really hard.

There will be a lot of failures on the way.

But you have to stick to it.

Think of failure as progress, not a setback.

Shift your mentality.

If you’re failing, it means you’re improving.

Failure doesn’t mean you should quit.

Get up and keep going.

When we watch sports, the best athletes make everything look so easy.

Kobe’s jumpshot, Ronaldo’s header, Tiger’s iron shot – they make it look so simple.

But it took them thousands of hours to get to that point.

We don’t see that work.

We don’t see the dark days, the grind, the practice, the injuries, the tears, and the journey.

All of those guys got there because they put in the time.

Committed to the process. Committed to getting a little better every day.

To be great like those guys, you need an even greater obsession. It’s gotta be maniacal.

Not everyone is cut out for that.

Most people aren’t.

But how do they do it?

Their mindset.

They determine what they’re going to do in their head, watch those thoughts and put in the work to get there.

Focus on the work, not the outcomes.

The outcomes are almost irrelevant because if you put in good work, the outcomes will come.

Focus on sucking less and everything else will come.