“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” - G.K. Chesterton

I have no idea how to start this article or end it really, but I (kind of) know what I want to say, and that is
Anything worth doing, is worth doing badly… that’s it.

I have had the idea for this article for a while now but kept putting it off because I wanted it to be on a differnet blog which I had not yet built, as this is my “tech” blog and because I couldn’t visualize how the article would go, for other articles I write (mainly cause it’s tutorials) I could always tell beforehand how it’d be before I even start but I couldn’t do that for this and kept putting it off, which is in line with what I want to talk about. I often don’t feel motivated to do something when it’d be alot of work because for me to do something that’s a lot of work I need to have enough time and be able to do it well otherwise what’s the point but what if instead of putting off things I just did it badly, it is very easy to do something badly and then improve and you’d almost always be in a better position than if you just didn’t do it.

You want to apply to a job but you know it’s a lot of work to work on your CV to match the role, optimize your cover letter to match exactly what they need and follow up with the team, then just do it badly and send the CV without a cover letter or with a bad cover letter, you’re probably not getting the job either way but sending the “bad” application would either make you do the required work to submit a good application or you’d send a poor application and still slightly get better at applying while also increasing your chances because of the number of jobs you apply to.

You want to build a project but you believe you’re not good enough to build what you want and you don’t want to build a simple “bad” project, build it anyways, one of these will help improve your skills by a little bit and give you something to show for.

You want to write an article that is in a style you’ve never done before, so you believe you need to learn a lot more about writing before you do that? Just do it badly, like genuinely what’s the worst thing that’d happen if you published a “bad” article, and looking at my other articles even though I have only done what I’m familiar with they aren’t the best, they still have their issues so not wanting to do something because you’d do it poorly (at least in my case) boils down to laziness, everything you’ve done hasn’t been perfect but you’ve done it regardless because you weren’t too lazy to do it.

Obviously you don’t get good at anything by always doing things poorly, but doing things poorly allow you to have something to start and motivate you to make it better or help teach you just a litttle bit of what you want to do. The ability to write a good non-tutorial article like the ones I read online is on the other side of practice, practice which I wouldn’t get by not writing anything at all because I want to be motivated, or learn first, the only way I’d get that practice is by doing it poorly… just do it.

This article might not be perfectly formatted, it might not have a coherent flow, and it might not even make perfect sense. But writing it has already put me in a better position to write something better than if I had waited until I thought I was “good enough” to start and maybe I make a lot of changes to the draft or the articles itself after I release it and it turns out very good, I would not know until I just do it badly.