I used to take voice lessons from a great teacher named Warren Senders.
First, I'd sing it for him as written.
“Uh... up an octave? But I can't sing that high!”
“I don't care! Do it anyway! Go! One... two... three... four...”
I'd sing the whole song again, in screeching squeaking falsetto, sounding like an
undead cartoon mouse. But by the second half of the song, it was almost
charming.
“Doesn't matter! Go! One... two... three... four...”
song that way.
Then he'd make me sing it twice as fast. Then twice as slow. Then like Bob
Dylan. Then like Tom Waits. Then he'd tel me to sing it like it's 4 a.m.
and a friend woke me up. And then he'd give me many other scenarios.
After al of this, he'd say, “Now... how did that song go again?”
It was the clearest proof that what I thought was “the” way the song went was
real y just one of an infinite number of options.
I'm taking an entrepreneurship class now. I've never studied business before.
We analyzed a business plan for a mail-order pantyhose company. Like al
business plans, it proposed only one plan.
After reading the whole thing, I felt like saying things my old voice teacher
would have said:
“OK, make a plan that requires only $1000. Go!”
“Now make a plan for ten times as many customers. Go!”
“Now do it without a website. Go!”
“Now make al your initial assumptions wrong, and have it work anyway. Go!”
“Now show how you would franchise it. Go!”
You can't pretend there's only one way to do it. Your first idea is just one of
many options. No business goes as planned, so make ten radical y different
plans.
Same thing with your current path in life:
Now you're living in New York City, obsessed with success. Go!
Now you're a free spirit, backpacking around Thailand. Go!
Now you're a confident extrovert and everyone loves you. Go!
Now you're married and your kids are your life. Go!
Now you spend a few years in relative seclusion, reading and walking. Go!
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