Start anyways
179/300. You don’t need evidence yet.
I joined Amor Fati community few weeks back and Moh Sheriff sent a half recording of his overconfidence 101 course and something he said struck me.
It left me feeling like I was hearing a rhema for the first time. He said, “You don’t need evidence to start.” This one line out of everything he said, stopped me in my tracks.
Maybe it sounds like, “oh common, it’s no new. We all know that.”
But do we really?
Do you actually know that you can just start without evidence. You can go ahead and pitch without having evidence. Go ahead and put yourself out there with no proof for it.
I know he was probably coming from the confidence part but let’s unpack it alone.
You suddenly decide you want to learn graphics design and believe me, you’re not learning it to be a decorator or something but to actually practice and earn money.
The normal advice is, become so good. Do a lot of good designs. Volunteer etc and they are really beautiful advice but I believe we forget to remind ourselves of one thing.
Nobody reminds you that just start is actually literal. That volunteer means go ahead even if you’re shitty.
Everybody wants to look perfect at the first time on the job, you want to dazzle and mesmerize the people watching but we forget that the only way you’d even get perfect or get to that level is if you even start at all.
It doesn’t matter if it’s bad.
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You do not need to be a badass or a guru to start Brand designing or fashion design or photography. You’ve learned a skill and you want to serve clients or even volunteer and you want to do the best job they’d ever seen.
But how is that possible? If you do not simply do it.
Approach the client, send in your CV, pitch them and yes without evidence.
You do not need all the evidence in the world to start.
You simply need to pick up your phone, set it and hit record. Brand deals will not meet you on your bed, but how do you know you can’t land brand deals with your 1000 followers if you don’t keep clicking record and reaching out to them?
Get ghosted. Get brutally critiqued. That’s actually where the evidence you want lies.
Nobody becomes an expert without the rough side. Stop looking for the evidence, just do it.
And if you’re wondering how you will “just start.”
Pick up your phone right now, click record, and just start rambling.
Honest take: don’t bother editing, hit post but if you must. Just tinker around, cut out a few fluffs but make sure it doesn’t sleep in your drafts.
Did I mention anything about your camera? Good. It really doesn’t matter yet, at least not at this very moment but if you care so much. Tinker around with capcut. You don’t even need to be a professional.
Pick a residue material, sit on the sewing machine and just wheel it. See what possibilities you’re capable of before you write yourself off.
Go to YouTube, Instagram or Tiktok. Search “social media management.” Watch 20mins, leave the app go and try it out. Fumble and come back.
I’m not sure you’d see any better way to start really.
Stop overthinking it!
