In the version of this mental motion I’m proposing here, you keep your eye out for ways that everyone’s being totally inept and incompetent, ways that maybe you could just do the job correctly if you reached in there and mucked around yourself.
I would go even further than that—you don’t have to think you can do the job correctly. Some of my most fruitful projects started with me thinking something like
Everyone is dropping the ball on this. I really don’t think I can do the job correctly, but someone should at least give it a shot, so I might as well do it.
I would go even further than that—you don’t have to think you can do the job correctly. Some of my most fruitful projects started with me thinking something like