We often work on our projects in secret, tinkering in a lab with the door closed.
As the project develops, our thoughts become visible, like mazes of pipes running in all directions, quaking and smoking.
With such a spectacle circling the room, it’s difficult to open the door, especially if we’re not done yet.
We’re worried people will laugh at the pipes and our spills, not understand them, respond in a way that makes us second-guess ourselves or come to realize that our percolating genius is not so genius after all.
Take some consolation in knowing we all feel this way. And remember that beautiful, inventive, life-changing things almost always develop in imperfect ways.