Calculated delusions of grandeur
You need to be a bit delusional to start anything worth doing. The trick is doing the maths first.
Everyone says don’t be delusional. I think you need to be, a bit. Nobody sensible starts a business with 3k or builds a venue that should of cost a million with 50k. On paper none of it makes sense.
But theres a difference between delusion and calculated delusion. Plain delusion is thinking your idea is groundbreaking and it’ll all just work out. Calculated is doing the first principles bit first. Is it physically possible? Whats it actually going to take? Can I give it everything? If the answer is yes then the rest is just work, and the grandeur is allowed.
You need the big picture to pull you through the bits that make no sense, and you need the maths so you aren’t just kidding yourself. One without the other is either a dreamer or an accountant.
Most people wont let themselves think that big because it feels arrogant. I’d rather think too big and land somewhere great than think sensible and land somewhere sensible.
Connected
- became part ofFaith In Strangers
- came fromManifestationGiving it your all and being okay with failing, made into a method.
- supported byMaximum valuable productThink too big first, whittle it down later.
- supported byThe execution mafiaA bad idea done well is still waste, so the delusion needs the maths first.