Tim you make me cry. You are so brilliant, spot on, and inspiring in a tough love kind-of way. Thank you for showing us what it means to be real and true to heart.
Hi Tim. This article is definitely on point - great read.
I'm married to one of those few who didn't fuck around in her 20s. Stanford, Cambridge, Yale law degree - high achiever. Made it harder for me to quit my professor job of 20 years so that I could f*ck around more full-time. I heard a saying recently that you can easily find the smartest person in the room because they are the nicest - that is my wife.
Since I quit my job a year ago, she has happily and joyfully followed my f*cking around wing-it-fest while I have been iterating like a spinning top.
Quite an article! It was in a way refreshing to find some affirmation in what some of us have felt, especially while struggling in our professional lives.
I loved every word of this Tim and I still have a big grin on my face. If you pick up on my Facebook share you'll see why it resonates so deeply with me, but most importantly, it's another kick up the butt to stop overthinking and just get started with my own Substack and F*ck around properly and gloriously.
I totally relate to the needing permission thing. Found that out about myself a few years ago and work every day to actively change it, but it IS difficult. Also realized comfort is the enemy of "I'll fuck around and figure it out". Love this one!
On the topic of farting around and figuring it out, over the last two days I’ve come up with a way to outline short articles (350-500 words apiece) that has transformed the way I think about content creation. Before reading your article here, Tim, I figured out that by keeping up with my new content creation habit, and sustaining my current level of output over the next few months, I will have created a library of new material that will set me up to produce a new article every day for the next five years.
Tim you make me cry. You are so brilliant, spot on, and inspiring in a tough love kind-of way. Thank you for showing us what it means to be real and true to heart.
I’m going to: mark, bookmark, send to Kindle, share, email to myself, print, and read the heck out of this post until I have it memorized.
You bloody knocked it out of the park.
Again.
Hi Tim. This article is definitely on point - great read.
I'm married to one of those few who didn't fuck around in her 20s. Stanford, Cambridge, Yale law degree - high achiever. Made it harder for me to quit my professor job of 20 years so that I could f*ck around more full-time. I heard a saying recently that you can easily find the smartest person in the room because they are the nicest - that is my wife.
Since I quit my job a year ago, she has happily and joyfully followed my f*cking around wing-it-fest while I have been iterating like a spinning top.
Thanks for sharing.
Quite an article! It was in a way refreshing to find some affirmation in what some of us have felt, especially while struggling in our professional lives.
Another great one!
Personal success is easy: Take your emotions out of the equation!
If your are not ready to disappoint people around you, you will never achieve what you want!
It is YOUR life, not theirs! So, why you let others tell you what you should do? Why do you need approval?
Thanks again Tim!
I loved every word of this Tim and I still have a big grin on my face. If you pick up on my Facebook share you'll see why it resonates so deeply with me, but most importantly, it's another kick up the butt to stop overthinking and just get started with my own Substack and F*ck around properly and gloriously.
I totally relate to the needing permission thing. Found that out about myself a few years ago and work every day to actively change it, but it IS difficult. Also realized comfort is the enemy of "I'll fuck around and figure it out". Love this one!
On the topic of farting around and figuring it out, over the last two days I’ve come up with a way to outline short articles (350-500 words apiece) that has transformed the way I think about content creation. Before reading your article here, Tim, I figured out that by keeping up with my new content creation habit, and sustaining my current level of output over the next few months, I will have created a library of new material that will set me up to produce a new article every day for the next five years.
This is just so uplifting. Just spot on! The world needs more of your wisdom. Thanks for sharing
This article of yours might be the best motivational article I’ve read for years! Thank you for sharing it. The hardest thing is just to start.
They had no other choice but to take what I decided to give them. Though they were initially shocked, they now got used to the changes.
I like the way you think Tim :)!
Always... My parents, friends, everyone who want me to be the YES man as I was in the past!
It's a never ending story...
Thanks for the inspiration for my next LinkedIn post Tim *thumbs up*
yesss THIS. 100% True.
Independence is happiness. Susan B. Anthony