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Making stuff automatically makes you better.

Music and links from this episode

1. Sofia 30 by Nuno Adelaida
2. Internally Grateful (feat. Josh Büche & Jonee Whatley) by Captive Portal
3. The Pet by Sebon

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1. INTRO
2. You've probably heard of Jerry Seinfeld before
3. If not though, he's an actor, comedian, and a writer
4. He made the sitcom Seinfeld, with Larry David
5. The reason I mention him 
6. Is because he once told his method for becoming a better comedian
7. It was simple really
8. Write something every single day
9. And write a cross on a calander for every day you do it
10. You've got one goal
11. Don't break the chain
12. And never stop
13. This is Ask a Designer Anything, and I’m Craig Burgess
14. PLAY MID SONG
15. I absolutely adore Seinfeld idea
16. And it's something I've long since subscribed to myself
17. I'm not as prescriptive as seinfeld
18. I don't do something every day
19. Unless I'm doing a silly 365 day challenge that is
20. But the idea of doing things regularly for yourself in your spare time is something I'm mega passionate about
21. You've probably noticed
22. It's a running theme through my podcasts
23. Because I think, especially for designers, designing something every day is a really easy way to get better without even trying
24. When I look back at my first ever 365 day challenge
25. When I designed a poster a day for 365 days
26. I did it because I wanted to get better at making vector graphics and using illustrator
27. It automatically worked, because of the volume of work I was producing
28. The same idea applies to these podcasts
29. Because I'm making one every day
30. I'm automatically getting better at audio production, writing scripts, talking into a mic, reading scripts, the list goes on
31. This is the very thing Seinfeld was getting at
32. Just by writing every day, he got a little bit better every day 
33. By the end of 365 days, he was a lot better
34. The reason most peope don't do this
35. Is 2 reasons
36. 1, it's hard to stay consistent and to not just come home from work and watch TV
37. And 2, most people don't like making rubbish stuff
38. Because when you're never stopping, and making something every day, most of what you make will be rubbish
39. And that's part of the reason for doing it too, to start to accept that sometimes your ideas aren't good, but you have to try them anyway
40. It stops self limiting beliefs
41. This is why Michael Beirut promotes this idea too, in a smaller way, for the students he teaches at university 
42. He gets students to perform a design operation every day for 100 days
43. One that you can complete every day so you don't give up
44. It teaches you to work faster
45. It teaches you to come up with ideas faster
46. And it teaches you to never stop
47. If I could get every design student in the world to make something every day for 365 days 
48. I would
49. Because I know from personal experience that they'll be so much better of a designer when they're finished
50. Even Gary Vaynerchuk talks about a similar concept
51. Of never stopping, and doing something every day
52. So, there's 3 successful people here who have all...