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# Cult of done
13 principles
a framework for work and self-improvement
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# [[First principle]]
3 stages: 
* not knowing: ignorance, uncertainty and curiosity
* action: take steps against not knowing -> making mistakes
* completed: problem solved -> not knowing tranformed into skill by action
Stages are cyclical and continuous.
# [[Second principle]]
Accept everything is a draft, it helps to get it done
Everything is a draft, it's not perfect, never will be, even after it's done
# [[Third principle]]
There's no editing stage
don't tweak what's there, create a new one
# [[Fourth principle]]
Fake it till you make it
Pretend you know and do it
# [[Fifth principle]]
Banish procrastination. More than a week to get it done ? throw it away, start anew.
If you're not feeling it, don't try to make it better, try the next idea, make the current one done.
# [[Sixth principle]]
The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done while being one project better.
# [[Seventh principle]]
Once your done you can throw it away.
The art isn't the art, the art is what happens inside you when you make it.
# [[Eighth principle]]
Laugh at perfection, it prevents you from being done.
Project is not finished, it's due. Make it done.
# [[Ninth principle]]
People without dirty hands are wrong, doing something makes you right.
# [[Tenth principle]]
Failure counts as done.
If you don't try, you can't fail.
# [[Eleventh principle]]
Destruction is a variant of done.
If you destroy, you can move to the next thing, you're done.
You've not failed, you've found ten ways in which it doesn't work.
# [[Twelfth principle]]
If you have an idea and publish it counts as a ghost of done.
Idea's are worthless, give them away.
# [[Thirteenth principle]]
Done is the engine of more.
Being done is the only way to find out what's next.

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# References
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJQj1uKtnus&ab_channel=NoBoilerplate
* https://medium.com/@bre/the-cult-of-done-manifesto-724ca1c2ff13