[bougiefever]

There's an old saying that whatever is worth doing is worth doing badly. So true. When I was in Germany, they have a saying that you start with "something to hate". Already knowing that what you're about to do is going to be crap makes it easy to get going. Then you set about fixing your crappy beginning. It gets you unstuck.

[m12k]

That reminds me of a saying I heard when starting to learn the game Go: "Lose your first 50 games quickly"

[agentwiggles]

I've heard a similar saying regarding songwriting, "your first 50 songs will suck, so get them out of the way quickly"

[sul_tasto]

if you don’t mind me asking, what’s the expression in German?