My friend and I are recording a podcast episode today. Our first one didn’t go so well.
It wasn’t absolutely cringe, as the kids say. But it was tough to listen back to.
We gave too much backstory. We didn’t interrupt each other enough. It felt like we were taking turns giving TED Talks.
But we wanted to start a podcast simply because we enjoy our conversations and hope others would too. Something happens when you hit “record,” though. When you see that blinking red light, the butterflies settle in. It’s easy to feel like everything spoken must be funny or groundbreaking.
I’m so glad we had a mediocre first recording. We can’t grow or improve until we run a test and gather data.
We could’ve prepped and planned for months, trying to create the perfect conversation. But what we did was so much more efficient.
We said fuck it, let’s just do it and see what happens.
Done is better than perfect. Because perfect usually means doing nothing.
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