Be An Amateur.

One of my favorite authors Austin Kleon writes in his book 'Show Your Work!' about why it is good to be an amateur.

First of all, who is an amateur? - He/she is simply a regular person who got obsessed with something and spent a ton of time thinking about it. In this fast-moving world, we all are amateurs at some point. You won't believe but we even have an upper hand over the professionals. Sounds crazy right? Let me explain how:

Let's say you want to learn how to create a website and you watched two videos about it.

1. First - A video of a professional coder who made that website at a fast pace and explained it with words you do not understand (Like creating DNS records, Web Hosting, etc)
2. Second -  A video titled 'Learning how to create my first ever website live from scratch. (No code experience)'.

I would lean toward the second video as it is more comfortable for me to watch an amateur try it out because I feel the same way. I would connect more to a person who is at my level or slightly above my level in the thing I'm interested in. Watching an amateur try and fail/succeed at something would inspire me to take action and try it myself.

He further writes and I quote - 'The difficulties we want an amateur to explain are the difficulties he recently faced, whereas the professional faced them a long time ago!' Think about it.

Of course, not every pro would be bad at explaining but you get my point right?

Since this chapter of the book inspired me and as the great Naval Ravikant says - 'Inspiration is perishable, we should act on it.' Therefore, I promised myself to share my work online. I will be sharing what I am learning along the way and it is my commitment to those of you reading this that I will be learning in front of you.

Peace n Love.

Kunal. xx.