Unlearning something old > learning something new

Pieter Levels dropping truth bombs:

People on here waiting months/years for “the right idea”

When the point is the right idea gets to you when you working on the wrong idea and even then it might not even be the right idea yet, it’ll evolve 10 more times to become the right idea

Then it’ll only be the right idea for a while and you can make money on it before you need to evolve it into the next idea

So the whole “right idea” approach is completely wrong, it’s more like be on the “right flowstate journey” perpetually which involves tapping into what’s going on around you (eg on here) well

It definitely resonated.

But why this is so utterly un-reflexive for most of us when starting out indie hacking is because coming from school/job:

• we need to get it right before we start
• there’s usually a right answer
• evolving, iterating the idea is a sign you did wrong

This whole fluid uncertainty and just riding the waves as you act is completely out of the norm for most folks who had a mainstream upbringing, education and work experience.

I definitely struggled back then when I started… still do sometimes! Habits and reflexes developed over the first 20-30 years of your life aren’t easy to just shake off whenever whatever.

Maybe that’s why they say, entrepreneurship ain’t for everyone. Because not everyone got what it takes to shed that old skin. Or not everyone managed to keep that instinct alive through a conformist sort of upbringing. Well, at least for me/us in Asia, in Singapore.

And if I got any success, it was more from unlearning something old than learning something new.

That about sums up my indie hacking journey.