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This has been posted in a gazillion other places but I still feel the need to propagate it.
The Cult of Done Manifesto
(1) There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
(2) Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
(3) There is no editing stage.
(4) Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
(5) Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
(6) The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
(7) Once you're done you can throw it away.
(8) Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
(9) People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
(10) Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
(11) Destruction is a variant of done.
(12) If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
(13) Done is the engine of more.
I love the energy of this (even if it is a parody.) I love that it flies in the face of the naysayers and the deniers. It reminds me of the Futurist Manifesto, and it reminds me of this Chinese proverb:
Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.
Joe The Peacock hates the C.O.D.M, and has outlined an argument against each point. He's taking it too seriously. The C.O.D.M is just inspirational stuff for people who procrastinate too much - it is designed to help you change your habits. If you don't need your habits changed then don't follow the advice!
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