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Brandon Sanderson talks about the difference between a chef and a cook. With food, a cook can look at a recipe and make the dish. A chef can look at a dish and make the recipe. With writing, he said, “I encourage my students to think of themselves like chefs rather than cooks. Train yourself to look at something you love and break it down to why you love it and then rebuild it into something that is your own.
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Dan Charnas points out that there’s a difference between striving for perfection and being a perfectionist. Their aims are the same—the highest quality—“but the striver knows that excellence is not about creating something of the highest quality,” Charnas writes, “it’s delivering something of the highest quality, with all the constraints that delivery entails—deadlines, expectations, contingencies, feedback.”
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SNL’s Lorne Michaels likes to say, “we don’t go on because we’re ready. We go on because it’s 11:30. If you always wait til your ready, you’ll never go on. And if you never go on, you’ll never get to perfect.”