Growing up in New England, we got a lot of snow. I learned at an early age, that making a snowman requires just the right kind of snow. It has to be wet enough to stick, but fluffy enough for there to be a lot of it. Out of 15 snow storms, there were 3 or 4 perfect for snowman building.
When I went to school at University of Delaware, the practice of snowman building was different. Down there, snow came only a few times each winter. It was possible there’d never be great snowman snow. But this didn’t stop people from making them. The first snow of the year always meant someone was going to build something. The conditions weren’t ideal, but people still finished snowmen.
That is the situation you are all in. If you want to be great at what you do, you can’t wait for the perfect conditions, because they may only come twice per year. You have to seize each opportunity to create and put something into the world. Even if it’s small, or rough, or falls apart, it’s the experience of creating. The perfect conditions may never come, so get out there and embrace the imperfections.
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