Continuous Self-Improvement Techniques

Table of Contents

• Reiteration and Refinement
• Creative Reconstruction
• Strategic Renouncing
• Intelligent Adaptation
• Learning from Others
• Efficient Reworking
• Experimentation
• Focus and Consistency
• Other

Reiteration and Refinement

Always take time out for rejuvenation and redirection.Inquire as you move along the path.There is no one best way. Different paths—different solutions.Refinement is a constant process of growth for better results!

The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear. Then rewrite it, praying you'll finish in time to send a new version by morning.

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things.

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in.

I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that’s not working. Just pare it down until it’s a beautiful thing you can hand in.

With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.

When rewriting, move quickly. It’s a little like cutting your own hair.

I think it's almost impossible to edit something to death. I think you can make things better almost indefinitely.

Creative Reconstruction

Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Now we're focusing on the downstream use for this content. What do you do with this material once you've created it?

I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.

When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved.

Transform it, decorate it, let it become a new Bruce Lee museum,

I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.

I can’t edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.

I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas.

You just don't know when you get in the editing room what you will need as a link or a tool for a transition. If you're in a room, and there's a kettle boiling, get a shot of it. Don't worry if people think you're nuts.

I'm just curious how it'd look like if someone tried to remake my work. But I really believe that it's hard to remake of any of my work.

You don't want to try to recreate something you've already done.

Strategic Renouncing

Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

It is finished. It cannot and will not be changed.

Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it’s all a matter of getting started. Once you’ve succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things. So here I am walking along this empty surface that is the world.

You don’t have to come up with the new, new thing. Just do the old, old thing slightly better than everyone else.

That’s the thing about a reputation. It’s hard to break and even harder to reinvent.

A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don’t think it works quite like that. You can’t just erase everything that came before.

It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.

Intelligent Adaptation

Turn your wasted time into value product or added value

Imagine, Re-search, Build-it & Repeat

You can always create the space to Review, Redo, and Renew as I teach in my book Release the Power of Re3. If you feel it is time to refresh your brand, take a moment to rethink your relevance and apply my 3-step formula.

Do not get stuck at the crossroad; keep building the “changeability.

The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts

There always is something you can learn and tweak.

It is fun to move inventory to refocus it.

Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.

We are looking for an alternate way to reach a modification.

We actually back it up by file and give you the choice on which files are most critical to you.

As CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, we used a concept called 'search and reapply,' which meant that if we found better ways of doing something, then we would do it.

You can’t just repurpose old material created for one platform, throw it up on another one, and then be surprised when everyone yawns in your face

Learning from Others

Dominate in your domain; You can do it.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself.

I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline.

You cannot innovate by copying.

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

You don’t have to come up with the new, new thing. Just do the old, old thing slightly better than everyone else.

If you’ve done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

You can't just copy someone. There are so many different styles that you can just kind of pick and choose whatever it is you'd like to do.

You have to continue to hone your craft.

Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not.Add what is uniquely your own.

Efficient Reworking

You may have something wise to say, but HOW YOU SAY IT may make it unwise! RECREATE it, else you'll REGRET it!

It's better to file an extension than do something so fast that you make mistakes.

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

If you don't do them now, they'll never be completed.

. . . don't rewrite unless you know what you're trying to do.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

Whenever I have to think to understand what the code is doing, I ask myself if I can refactor the code to make that understanding more immediately apparent.

Stop. I’m not going to take any more input until I’ve made something with what I got.

I don’t fiddle or edit or change while I’m going through that first draft.

The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about modulating what's already there.

Editing is really like plumbing a good deal of the time. You put two things together, and a current runs through it.

Experimentation

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

Another virtue of my experiments is that I use the same long single strand over and over again (the natural virus sequence) and I just change the ∼200 short staple strands. This means I don't have to do a custom long synthesis every time I want to make a new structure.

Actually, it isn't done. (QND) is going back and forth.

A good answer must be reinvented many times, from scratch.

As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

I suppose I could do 'The Reassembler' at 80. But it would be a terrible cliche.

I've not given up my keeping, I want to make that very, very clear. I'm still working hard on my keeping and it's something I still want to do.

Focus and Consistency

The best way to make something last is to believe that it won't.

You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

This is the best option to be made whole again, in the event that you lose everything.

Refocusing on what you do want will take you in the direction of what you want.

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what’s left.

The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear. Then rewrite it, praying you’ll finish in time to send a new version by morning.

I still want to do features, but on my own terms.

If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.

Other

It is easy to begin anew, rather than try to redo the existing.

To re-triple your efforts is to wield greater exploits

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I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.

There is no way to re-create that until you are out there. Now I know what to work on in my swing.

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

If you want to create a permanent underclass, this is the way to do it.

I love the idea of rectitude.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

It may or may not be. It's a good initial step to do it (cut inventories). I commend them for taking this early action rather than letting it drag out.

Any talk of dismantling it would be inappropriate given its unique expertise and resources.

There's nothing really that I'd do differently. But you just have to make those saves at that time -- especially short-handed.

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.

I’d rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.

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