Ep. 102 - "Beyond Terrible" — The Best Comment I've Ever Received

A YouTube commenter called one of my videos "Beyond Terrible." It ended up being one of the most useful things anyone's ever said to me — and the video after it became my best-performing one yet.

In this episode of Design More, Despair Less, I break down four ideas that have shaped how I approach design, career, and building an audience:

— Why how you respond when things go wrong matters more than the thing going wrong

— Why nothing great gets designed without constraints

— How putting yourself in the right situations creates opportunity (and where I actually find it)

— Why doing hard things on purpose makes the rest of life easier

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Timestamps:

🎙️ 0:00 — Intro: the "Beyond Terrible" comment

💬 0:21 — #1: How you respond when things go wrong defines your career

⚙️ 5:00 — #2: Nothing great is designed without constraints

🎯 9:43 — #3: Put yourself in situations to find opportunity

💪 12:51 — #4: Doing hard things = an easier life 🎬 15:36 — Wrap-up

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