“One of the things I always thought was the secret of The Beatles was that our music was self-taught. We were never consciously thinking of what we were doing. Anything we did came naturally. A breathtaking chord change wouldn’t happen because we knew how that chord related to another chord. We weren’t able to read music or write it down, so we just made it up. My dad was exactly the same. And there’s a certain joy that comes into your stuff if you didn’t mean it, if you didn’t try to make it happen and it happens of its own accord. There’s a certain magic about that. So much of what we did came from a deep sense of wonder rather than study. We didn’t really study music at all.” -Paul McCartney, The Lyrics
“But the risk is worth it. Because the half-baked work, shared in a trusting environment, is the fuel for the system that created the works of genius.” -Seth Godin
“You were only waiting for this moment to be free.” song, Blackbird by The Beatles
Most times you shouldn’t serve the pie until it’s fully baked.
But sometimes, especially in collaborative mediums, you should serve it up half- baked. Give the team a taste. Get them excited.
And who knows? Maybe your half-baked version is actually fully baked and ready to go.
This Seth blog post.
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