Protect the facade, or let it go?

It is finally here! The?Science Pitchers?Community Launch Event on March 23rd @ 04:00 PM?Helsinki time (UTC+2)

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Fine fine...here is a glimpse of what happened behind the scenes and what I learnt from my experience building a community. It's harder for me to speak about my emotions than to actually build a community. ??

?? THE STORY

We spent over a year planing, building & perfecting a community platform built for the thousands of people we have coached in the art of communication. AND of course, we hesitated, will it work?

So our team would go back to the drawing board... adjust our plans and build some more. ?? ??

Can you see the problem? One freakin' word. "Perfecting" a community platform before even inviting the community members and hear their feedback.?

YES, we want to provide value and NO we don't want to be like any other community platform. We told our selves, this will be different, this will be unique, this will be perfect! You get the point.

? WHAT I DIDN'T LEARN

1 year later, I won't say that my key takeaway was a cliche lesson such as, "DONE is surely better than PERFECT". Or use some start-up lingo and say "a minimum viable product (MVP) is better than no product at all"

? WHAT I DID LEARN

instead, is that I am scared. I know, it's hard to believe. How can one confidently in front of thousands on a stage but when it comes to creating an online community, I chicken out...I make excuses and worst of all, I relentlessly defend my trail of accomplishments. I try to protect the facade.

My fear scale looks something like this (least scary < most scary)

Against all odds...the one thing that helped against all of this, is that WE SET A DEADLINE & STUCK TO IT!

Thank you to our team Khalil Shahramian , Behrouz Khatami & Anna Wikstr?m for putting so much effort into connecting the Future of Science Pitchers to the Community.

TLDR ??

We're going to launch the Science Pitchers Community next week (23.March.23 16.00 GMT+2) and I'm excited for what is about to happen.

Check out our event description because one of my favourite pitching coaches (and secret role model) Gleb Maltsev is going to join us with an?#engaging?#pitching?#workshop?(agenda post shall follow soon)