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Now let’s talk about my new cult… 🩸
I Joined a Cult…
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I’m a builder. Above all else, I love to make things. 🛠️
But anyone who has a love of making things has realized this at some point:
Wanting to make things is easy.
Actually making things is hard.
From procrastination to perfectionism, there are a million things standing between YOU and the thing you want to create. This can result in a fate worse than death for a builder, maker, or creative…
A life lived without ever making the things you dream of making.
For a long time, this is what I’ve felt like.
Just dreaming, not making.
But recently, something has changed. I’m creating things nonstop on a level of quality and consistency that I didn’t even know I had.
What changed?
I joined the Cult of Done. 🩸
And I think you should join it too…
Founders of the Cult of Done
Bre Pettis (Artist, Maker, My Cult Leader)
Bre Pettis is a builder, artist, and entrepreneur who has been at the forefront of the maker movement for over 10 years. He’s the co-founder and former CEO of MakerBot, the company that brought 3D printing to the mainstream, and he is the founding member of the Cult of Done.
For years before MakerBot, he had been making a video every week (about making things), and more recent to the creation of the Cult of Done, he had been making a video every single day.
“I had been in the zone of creativity.”
— Bre Pettis
The Cult of Done Manifesto is the documentation of what he learned from within that zone of unbridled creativity and ruthless completion.
The Cult of Done Manifesto
Written by Bre Pettis in collaboration with Kio Stark.
Written in 20 minutes… because they only had 20 minutes to get it done.
There are three states of being. Not knowing, action, and completion.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
There is no editing stage.
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.
Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
Once you’re done you can throw it away.
Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
Destruction is a variant of done.
If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
Done is the engine of more.
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