We can’t fully figure something out in our head. At some point, we need to externalize our ideas to see how they flesh out in the real world.

Taking action allows us to learn what works and doesn’t, what we like and don’t like, what we thought was true and what’s really true. But we often put so much pressure on getting things right, that we hesitate to take action. We keep planning and tweaking.

One approach to take some pressure off of any specific outcome is to view the action as an experiment.

The Cambridge Dictionary defines an experiment as “a test done in order to learn something or to discover if something works or is true.”

Through this lens, everything you do is not a success or failure, but a process of learning and discovery, that then informs the next thing you do, i.e. the next experiment.

In reality, life is one big experiment.

So try things, have fun, and enjoy the process.