Some articles tell you to dream big. Some articles like this one tell you to dream smaller and learn how to execute on your ideas.
The real problem is in understanding how to match the ambitiousness of your ideas to the level at which you are able to execute. Everyone is different and most people are better at one vs the other.
Difficulty in finding that sweet spot seems to be the real source of difficulty that motivates blogs like the one being discussed in this thread.
>The real problem is in understanding how to match the ambitiousness of your ideas to the level at which you are able to execute.
Start small, build bigger and more ambitious over time. If you wanted to become a runner, you wouldn't start with trying to run a marathon the first time your feet hit the pavement.
you are right. so right that it often goes unnoticed. The perfect impedance matching of our skill and idea and work is both nearly impossible and key to huge success. Rest of the people keep wasting ( including me ) some very good skill over totally unrelated task and never understand why they did not make it.
The real problem is in understanding how to match the ambitiousness of your ideas to the level at which you are able to execute. Everyone is different and most people are better at one vs the other.
Difficulty in finding that sweet spot seems to be the real source of difficulty that motivates blogs like the one being discussed in this thread.