Ideas are cheap. Conviction is the rare thing.
Everyone has ideas. The notebook is full of them; the group chat overflows. Ideas were never the scarce resource.
What's scarce is conviction — the willingness to choose one idea, ignore the others, and stay with it long after the thrill of the first week burns off. Most things don't fail because they were wrong. They fail because no one stayed.
A studio is a machine for conviction. We choose slowly and commit completely. We'd rather get one rare idea genuinely right than dabble in ten that already exist.
That's the whole discipline: say no to almost everything, so the few yeses can have everything.
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