How many times don’t we pursue an idea or take on a project because “we don’t know how?”
I am afraid to know!
The funny thing about being in this kind of a situation, is that you trick yourself into thinking you can’t do it because you’ve never done it before. But the truth of the matter is, it has far more to do with the fear of failure than anything else. And that’s the funny thing about failure, it’s one of our greatest teachers.
Why You Should Take On Projects You Don’t Know How to Do
Scott Stowell, creative director of Open, an independent design studio in New York, had this to say about taking on projects that you don’t know how to do:
“We like to do projects that we don’t know how to do. No one has any idea what they’re doing. We’re all just figuring it out.”
[Watch his entire presentation here]
That’s so true!
I’ll never forget taking on a website project that felt WAY over my head. After some serious research on how to tackle the project, I stumbled across a thing called, WordPress (you may have heard of it) and found a nifty online resource called The 8BIT Network — and the rest, as they say, is history…
Church Tech
Most of us got our start in Church tech because we were the default. Somebody needed something done in the church that was technical, thought of us, and assigned us the task. We are rarely qualified, almost always ‘just figuring it out,’ and Google is our friend.
Church techs, take heart. You are not alone. You stand with a band of movers and shakers that laugh at the idea of ‘qualification.’ Not because we don’t believe qualifications matter, but because we realize that after every failure, you’re one step closer to success.
Godspeed.
John Saddington says
and the rest is history.
🙂
Eric Dye says
True story. 😀
Thank you for believing in me. 😉