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guy: how do I make great art picasso: make 50,000 pieces guy: ur kidding picasso: im not

Picasso created more than 50,000 works of art. How many are considered masterpieces that we still admire today? About a 100. Less than 1% of his creations are still relevant. Stop trying to be perfect. It's a numbers game. Start creating. Be courageous enough to share.

new runner: how do I get better at running? should I go fast? do speedwork? intervals? do a program? coach: whatever, just keep running new runner: ur kidding coach: im really not https://t.co/8jdrPSXVSo https://t.co/U3CUUTO7fQ

vlogger: how to become youtube famous some swedish guy: make 3,000 videos https://t.co/wZXyXFgwMr https://t.co/zmsweuvBZZ

I sometimes joke "who is this Pewdiepie person, never heard of him" – but the fact is he has published over THREE THOUSAND AND SEVEN HUNDRED VIDEOS. IMO, make and publish 1,000+ of *anything* before you gripe about missing some boat or hype train. Makers are usually busy making.

how become really good writer who comes outta nowhere https://t.co/mUBHkhF0to https://t.co/xGMn0gV2eK

how to business? https://t.co/PbKYCxN7qj https://t.co/yi8M6xgHo4

make a sea of imperfect work https://t.co/ZwhIUIqSMV

Hokusai: - starts painting at 6 - wood-carver apprentice at 14 - understudies Shunshō at 18 - publishes first prints at 19 - starts taking students at ~40 He died at 88, but he had planned to keep working to 110 https://t.co/rRqq9nY7CR https://t.co/ffDiyBpKi8 https://t.co/lQ4zs9AHeu


Da Vinci: *takes at least 7,200 pages of notes* (h/t @nicklovescode for pic choices) https://t.co/0phJpCw0OK https://t.co/uuhK8UKG7A https://t.co/gOnqYxZIEz


Over 7,200 pages of Leonardo's notes survive to this day (I saw a set of them at an exhibition a while ago). He couldn't afford to waste paper, so he crammed his pages with lots of miscellaneous and divergent things. Wonder what he'd have done with an Internet connection

Do 1,400 podcast episodes https://t.co/ctb010RWGF https://t.co/X3G7PPcs2h

how to build a pitch deck for investors https://t.co/q4019A1WJy https://t.co/yvhiFJ1XFW

“sketch 100 novel plots” - Nietzsche https://t.co/Uaf1yLhz82 https://t.co/4HBLxcMvh3

aspiring starlet: what is your advice for someone who gets rejected a lot and wants to give up chrissy teigen: get rejected 100 times https://t.co/NMLRVpkFmd https://t.co/EkMiUSMgs0

how to come up with a good book title https://t.co/njuafZxK0d https://t.co/33mpv6DDmw

how to get good at game design? play 1,000 games https://t.co/f5OeEbxULp

how to get good at making videos? https://t.co/P5nrwnHEBj

how to get good at writing? https://t.co/d04LEx1Iku

A person on Twitter, paraphrased: "I wish I was able to write as well X but despite going to school and doing everything right, I can't." Write a million words. "But they'll be not particularly great words." If anyone remembered X's first million that's true of theirs, too.

how to write good songs? https://t.co/XwuYSTbQTa

how become good comedian? chappelle recorded hundreds of hours of tapes of his sets https://t.co/Z63XwxMTbt


meta commentary on Do 100 Things https://t.co/gLP9fT6faw

(Using the energy from this compliment to talk more about why Make Many Thing is so cool to me) There is interestingness in repetition that you cannot anticipate until you have the body of work. If you make 100 omelettes in a row you will likely notice nuanced things about them https://t.co/8QqYTUilfv

"make 1368.75 beats" – Kanye https://t.co/v7UnLKbh0C




24. guy has been streaming 1,000 punches every day for 2+ years https://t.co/Lwe9Pugb3T

25. 1 in 20,000 pictures were good https://t.co/sByQB3CdO4


27. "Paint Mount Fuji 100 times" – Hokusai https://t.co/f64KjK855q https://t.co/dtlEdhJp0o


28. "talk to me on your 101st video" - @mrbeast https://t.co/L6hYJYD3zo


67. “Do 100 thing” might seem trivial if you’ve never tried it. But scroll up through this thread yourself and get a sense of what even 2/3rds of it feels like. It takes 2 mins each time to film but it’ll take you 2+ hours to watch all of it. Baby steps fucken add up!! https://t.co/w2Tjuh7gkj


31. write 227 poems https://t.co/uLDENkY4Si

32. ten songs a weekend https://t.co/XpIjGF6PEq

33. “You only close the gap between what you make and the image of perfection in your mind with a sea of imperfect work.” – @seanwes https://t.co/ew6AQfv1KC


@SeanWes 34. https://t.co/NMpXxxlYJl

@SeanWes 35. Dua Lipa wrote 97 songs while working on her upcoming album https://t.co/LvZb7vAEbw

@SeanWes 36. Billie’s brother Finneas was influenced by Outliers’ 10,000 hours and wrote it on their door frame, and joked about making her the biggest pop star in the world https://t.co/Q0Yl81q49B

@SeanWes 37. fix 100 issues

On Nat Friedman's first day as CEO of Github, at 9am, he had meeting with his leadership team over Zoom. They were probably expecting a long term strategy, but instead he shared his screen and pulled up a GitHub repo where users could submit and vote on product feedback. He said "we're going to pick one thing from this list, and fix it by the end of the day." He initially got pushback that it wasn't possible. But ultimately they found something that would work, and they shipped it that day. Then he said, we're going to do this again, every day, for the next 100 days. What did this accomplish? 1. It built trust with their customers: "We needed to show the world we cared about developers, not that we care about Microsoft. If the first thing we did was add Skype integration, developers would have said 'we're not your priority'." 2. It built excitement internally about shipping: "Github was a company that had a little bit of stage fright about shipping, so when we broke that static friction it felt great." 3. It helped Friedman ramp up as leader: he quickly figured out which teams were standouts, where there was a lot of tech debt, which stuff they shipped was good and which was bad. The big strategy (including becoming a leader in AI) would follow. But first, he shipped 100 things.


@SeanWes 38. drawing the same thing 100 times (ig: carefulartist) https://t.co/JSkxjNhjJa

