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Hunting for Blind Spots
There’s something wrong in your work. No, not with your work, in your work.
You can’t see it, you don’t know it’s there, but deep inside that thing you put so much care, effort, and heart into creating, there’s a false assumption, a misconclusion, a blind spot that you’ve blown past without realizing.
And if you don’t find it, it could ruin everything.
Don’t worry, you’re not the only one with these oversights, we all have them. But just because we all have them too, doesn’t mean yours still won’t sabotage the work you care so much about.
There’s a solution, of course, but it’s not easy.
That solution and the prerequisite for creating work worth talking about is to become ruthless in hunting out your oversights, blind spots, false assumptions and areas in which you are just plain wrong.
Constant education is essential, but reading books, blogs, or listening to podcasts is the easy part.
The hard part is exposing yourself to opinions with which you disagree and then asking why.
Why is that position wrong and yours right?
Who shares the dissenting opinion and why?
Can they back it up and make a compelling argument?
