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Serial innovators Bre Pettis and Kio Stark came together to produce what the call "The Cult of Done Manifesto." As Bre explains, it was written "in 20 minutes because we only had 20 minutes to get it done." Talk about making ideas happen...


The manifesto, reprinted below, inspired technical illustrator James Provost to represent the manifesto as a poster (below). No word on how long that took...


We find this inspiring and very inline with Behance's mission to boost productivity and execution in the creative world. Much respect to Bre, Kio, and James!


The Cult of Done Manifesto

  1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
  2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
  3. There is no editing stage.
  4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
  5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
  6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
  7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
  8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
  9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
  10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
  11. Destruction is a variant of done.
  12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
  13. Done is the engine of more.


Poster by James Provost




By Behance Team on March 6th 2009  |  Action Method, Productive Creativity, Random Musings, Sites We Like
7 Responses
November 01, 2009
11:10 pm
Hi,
After reading this article I found that the best part of it was that it was written in 20 minutes. This is pure genius! I’m amazed that how they managed to do it. Keep up the good work.
June 10, 2009
04:20 pm
"Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it."

I try doing this, but I just can't fool my husband.
April 30, 2009
08:42 am
!!!!!
April 16, 2009
01:31 am
"Effin brilliant, 4 stars!"
March 31, 2009
05:13 am
Constant trial win success...
March 20, 2009
11:31 pm
If you can't succeed, try try again???
March 10, 2009
12:50 am
How to explain the feeling I get from reading this. Have been practising the above out of necessity since we got our second child (time need more time).
But I have felt quite frustrated about it, until now reading this, regarding acceptance of failure and "everything is draft" and my favorite "laugh at perfection".

I'm gonna print this manifesto and tag it to the side of my screen where I can't help but see it. Peace at last :)
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