Get Good First

Inspired by Cal Newport · So Good They Can't Ignore You Go to the source ↗

Loving your work tends to follow being good at it rather than come before. Every card here is a day's worth of getting better at something specific, and of spending what that earns on the life you want.

Choose from 7

What am I getting better at?

Practise the Hard Part

I will spend the time on the part I am worst at, not the part I enjoy.

I name the skill specifically enough to practise, work the part I am worst at, and keep going a little past comfortable.

Ask for the Hard Feedback

I will put the work in front of someone whose judgment I trust and ask what is weak.

I show it to someone better than me and ask what is weak, then sit with the answer long enough to use it — and redo something I had already called done.

Find Out How It Landed

I will learn what the work actually did rather than assume.

What is that buying me?

Take the Hard Piece

I will take on the work that is valuable precisely because it is hard.

Spend What I've Earned

I will use what I am good at to ask for something I want — time, direction, different work.

Make a Small Bet

I will try one small version of a bigger idea, cheap enough to be wrong about.

I try the small version, cheap enough to be wrong about, and notice what became possible that wasn't before.

Choose Better Over Safer

I will pick the option that makes me better rather than the one that feels safest.

You get your own editable copy — change anything, drop what doesn’t fit. They land in your Intentions, tagged Craft; you pull in what each day is for.