The messiness of our ideas can often be daunting or discouraging. But if we stick through the mess, if we keep working on the idea, we not only end up with something polished and powerful, we set ourselves apart from the 90% of others who gave up….

It’s tempting to step back from the moments just after our ideas have begun to evolve–when we’ve got a few sentences on the page, or a few strokes on the canvas, or a few words in a map–and say that the idea isn’t any good.

Source: Every idea starts messy, keep moving

I find I often jump in after the first step of the process, rather than letting ideas roll around in my head. Even though I seem to have the opposite approach, which isn’t always successful, I found this process interesting.