I spent a few hours today brainstorming expansions for my tattoo sleeve.
Even though he’s the artist and I’m certainly not… I want to do as much of the legwork as possible before I present my ideas to him.
Because one of the realities of our world is that nobody will (should) care more about the (mostly) irreversible decisions in your life than you.
When I reach out to my tattoo artist for sketches, ideas, etc… he’s on the clock. He’s thinking about his own irreversible life decisions and accounting a fraction of his time to a project like mine.
…But me? I have a vision of how I want this thing to turn out and I’m willing to invest however many hours it takes to get it just right.
And that’s exactly the kind of energy you need to be investing into decisions at that calibre.
Don’t outsource irreversible.