About this quote

True originality often looks chaotic from the outside. People who actually change things rarely wait until they have a perfect plan. Have you ever noticed how the most brilliant breakthroughs come from someone too ignorant to know what was impossible? Stop overthinking your lack of experience and start building. Your clumsy first steps might actually be your best work.

When to use it

• I think of this when watching our lead developer write code. Half the time he invents a brilliant shortcut, and the other half he accidentally deletes the staging database.
• My brother tried to fix his own plumbing using a YouTube tutorial. The kitchen didn't flood, but now the hot water tap turns on the garbage disposal.
• I recalled this during art class when my friend threw paint at her canvas in frustration. The art teacher praised it as a masterpiece of abstract expressionism.
• My cousin launched an online business with zero market research and made ten thousand dollars in a week. He still doesn't know how to file his business taxes.