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Hey Reader,

What can 763 elephants do?

Launch a rocket into space.

On July 20, 1969, humanity launched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (and some others) into space on Saturn V.

To get off the surface of our planet, it took 4,578,000lb of fuel — which weighs the same as 763 elephants.

(Aside: I love the thought process here. “How can we visualise that much fuel?” “Elephants.”)

There was more fuel than rocket in that rocket.

But once it was up there — easy sailing.

Well, kinda — let’s ignore all the exciting ways to die in space and focus on the energy expenditure.

I could boil it down to:

1. An absolute boatload of energy to get moving.
2. Once you’re moving, you’re set — cruising forever with little effort.

A flow state, if you will, which is what most writers are trying to surf on.

But the big mistake I see soooooo often is this:

“I want to write, but I’m just not motivated. I can’t do it until I’m motivated.”

Ah, no, grasshopper.

That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.

We do the thing — THEN we get motivated.

We get moving — which can be awful and require 763 elephants — but once we’re trucking, we can usually sail along.

I will do almost anything to avoid starting to write, up to and including picking up chicken poo from the coop.

But when I finally do start, it’s like an exhale.

A weight lifts, I zone out, and off we go.

And I am motivated to continue because that’s how this works.

We start the thing, then we get motivated to continue.

But we don’t wanna use 763 elephants worth of energy to get going, right?

No we don’t.

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TTFN,

Vicky 🫡

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