I like this manifesto. I especially like the statement; “Accept everything as a draft”. I also like; “The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done”. I always view my job as a designer is to “get shit done”. That is my personal manifesto. I try to apply that to everything at work and I find as a result I am asked to apply my design thinking and get shit done spirit to a lot of projects both new product development related as well as, for example, business development and strategy. If you want a classic business/sports term for this it would be, “moving the ball forward”. Or for those more musically minded I view John Lennon’s quote to be of the same vain. ” Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”. Obviously it is important to know the goal, why you are doing what your doing and all that jazz but I find it is of the utmost importance to just get shit done. - AK

13 Rules For Realizing Your Creative Vision

They are:

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

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