What I Learned About Success by Flipping Burgers

Action is key, but it takes intention and practice to create success that satisfies.

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I read an article recently about how to approach writing the way a burger flipper approaches flipping burgers.

They don’t think, they just do.

Being a chef who has flipped a decent amount of burgers, I was intrigued. The premise is great, less thinking, more action. We overthink too much, trying to be perfect. It inhibits our ability to take the most important step, the only step that will get us closer to our goal — action.

The act of flipping a burger, yes, is to simply flip the burger. But does anyone flip a burger, just to flip a burger? Do you create anything just to create?

Or are you trying to make something people crave? That they will choose to spend their hard earned money on and come back day after day because it’s so good, they can’t live without it.

Can you just flip a burger and find success?

Maybe, if you’re a home cook and your goal is to make dinner.

Maybe you write, or create for your own satisfaction. I applaud you. For me, who depends on creations for income, the action of doing is only just the…