It gets crazy wrapping your head around everything at times. I’m sure you’ll enjoy the rest of the posts as I’m going to lay out my thinking for each area.

More to come soon!

So I watched the video, but where are you? I just saw a young Harrison Ford walking through Queen…

The details of your video are also interesting, beyond the “fear of mistakes” idea because you seem to be going through a similar challenge as I am: What name do I use when marketing me, or how to market myself?

Personally, I’m not a fan of using my name as an ID (i.e. I don’t want tedkusio.com). Instead a name for “work Ted” (aka http://hireted.biz and @HireTedBiz on Twitter), and the other “real” non-work Ted (aka SlowX…), which is where I post pictures of my cat, bad poetry, and stuff an employer may rather not know…or care about.

Then I also want my own versions of CaseAceCopy and FuzzBucket. In fact, I have some, but am not myself entirely sure what they all mean, how they’re all different…

How do I keep them apart? DO I keep them separate?

The solution (for now, for me) is to run with what I got. If I confound people, I’ll fix and “pro-found” them later.

Yep. That simple.

Just as soon as I register SuperFuzzBucketWow.com.

@Miles, I believe all we can do is the best we possibly can at that given moment.

With the end goal always making the client happy.

See above.

I hope you get to watch the video too.

When it comes to new info I feel it’s a lot like acting. You learn the different techniques. Then you find the one that suits your style.

You learn the lines. You make discoveries along the way. As you rehearse you take more and more ownership until the lines become your own.

You emerge from the character.

In my view this same process emerges regardless of the field:

1. Learn
2. Talk
3. Implement
4. Make mistakes
5. Go back to start

So should we deliberately make mistakes so we can fix them? Difficult one….

, Doing the wrong thing and then fixing it can also also make you much more

I like what you say here, even outside the video, and Rebecca’s comment adds to this idea. It reminds me of the thing that really sold me on Seth Godin’s “Linchpin” book. He says that not everything you do will be brilliant, but if you do it a lot/often, something brilliant is bound to pop out. “Ship often. Ship lousy stuff, but ship. Ship constantly.” he says.

Sure is easier said than done sometimes. I mean, so many blogs to read, twitters to tweet… heh.

Good videeya. When you mentioned that you tried on an idea that later didn’t fit for your personality, it got me thinking about a realization I’ve had recently which is … we’re constantly reading, watching, taking in helpful information from others which is great, but you become inundated with SO much positive suggestions that you almost don’t know where to start when you try to take it on. And, then you do try something, but it doesn’t fit with your personality so you end up discarding 80% of it to make it more “you.” Which is fine and good. You just feel like you’re in the muckity muck for a second until you see the forest for your own set of trees.

Anyhoo. Love your series. Happy summer.