I rewrote my book this week.
I don't think my publisher is thrilled about it, but she'll be fine. Here is the story about why it needed to be done.
I thought to myself:
“This is better than I remember”
I read it again last week and thought to myself:
“This isn’t good enough” but couldn’t out my finger on why.
Laying awake at 2:30 in the morning…
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And here is an update:
I've sent the new copy to my publisher.
I am not sure when it will be changed or swapped out.
Once it's been updated by the publisher I will drop the cost on Amazon as low as it will let me for each format 
I've already uploaded a free version to…
I thought to myself:
“This is better than I remember”
I read it again last week and thought to myself:
“This isn’t good enough” but couldn’t out my finger on why.
Laying awake at 2:30 in the morning…
Better
Every few years I experience a quantum leap moment. It's a stage of exponential personal growth. It doesn't look or feel like you'd expect. I wrote about exponential here:
I know when it's happening because I wake up at two or three in the morning thinking about one thing:
BETTER.
Not "I'm going to do better tomorrow" better.
It's a different kind of better. My book is a good example. I have read it two or three times before this week. Each time I've thought "Wow, this is better than I thought it was". I read it this week and thought:
This needs to be better.
It needs to be easier to read.
It needs to be less redundant.
It needs to be shorter.
So I rewrote it.
Then, I went back to some of the first posts on this blog and read them. My first thought?
These need to be better.
If you know me, that translates into:
I need to do better.
And that's how I know I'm in the middle of another quantum leap. What was acceptable before is no longer. No guilt, no shame, no embarrassment. This is part of the process.
Instead of thinking "I am going to do better tomorrow" or "I am going to write something better next week"...
I challenge you to go back and make what you've already done better. Simpler. Smoother. Clearer. You'll get way more reps and you'll have a tight feedback loop beating up your own stuff.
And since this is a Force Multiplier, here are the posts I went back and made just a little bit better. Even if you read them before, they'll hit you differently this time:
The Adaptive Dilemma:
Hooomans gonna hooman.
Niche? No thanks:
Why I don't niche down
Force Multipliers 1:
Throwing stones.
Onward
Nic
