Everything Is Cringe Until It Works - The Lesson Behind Building Anything

So, but in that same breath, you... as I'm thinking about it, you know, you've got a day job, and now you're doing this.

Like, what's...

When this really started to become a true business, you know, what did that look like in your life, in your home life?

It was ironic.

Um, I started doing it out of a, just a genuine curiosity because I'd seen some videos of people doing it, and it came more natural than I expected.

I think it's cool because it's one of those things where I started this with no woodworking experience at all.

So I've built it up to a point where I'm very, very confident in the products that I put out, and that's over two and a half years.

So I think it's one of those things where you just have to start.

Um, like my first barrel, the door was messed up.

You know, it had like a, an underbite.

The door was just sunken in a little bit.

It wasn't perfect, but it was still pretty good.

So I think that's the thing that a lot of people fail to do is just do.

You know, you, you have all these thoughts, and you have the ability to do so much and create so much in your life.

Um, just do it.

You might not be great at it, but you put the reps in.

You can never be a true master if you can't like embrace the fact that you're gonna suck for a period of time at anything you do, and I think that gets in so many people's way is they're so afraid of sucking for a period of time.

But it's not about their own, you know, inferiority.

It's how they're gonna look to everybody else around them.

Right.

And, uh, I love this quote.

I didn't write it, and I wish I could give credit to whoever did, 'cause I, I don't know who said it first, but it's, "Everything is cringe until it works." You see that with social media.

You see it with building a business.

You see it with all these different things.

It's, you know, everyone around you is kinda like, "The fuck's that guy doing?" You know? Like, "He's really making a barrel? He's not even making the barrel.