Next week's launch is dedicated to all the liberal arts degrees!

Hi Product Hunt. Maria here, one of the makers for Creatium Coach, which launches neweekxt !

I want to say something that has nothing to do with features.

I went to one of those liberal arts schools where discussing ancient philosophic texts in the middle of a party was a normal thing.

If you went to a school like that too, you know the routine.

Someone at a family dinner asks what you're going to do with that, then answers their own question with a joke about coffee shops. I heard it enough times that I started making the joke first, just to get ahead of it.

I spent a lot of that degree with Aristotle, and specifically with the Nicomachean Ethics. His argument, roughly, is that you don't get good at something by knowing about it. You get good at it by doing it, badly, over and over, with someone next to you who can tell you when you're doing it wrong.

Excellence isn't a fact you acquire. It's a habit you build.

Next week we're launched a product built on exactly that. Creatium Coach doesn't lecture you and then quiz you on the lecture.

It asks what you actually want to be great at, then makes you practice it with a coach who pushes back. And in one of the two worlds you can choose, that coach is Aristotle, in the Lyceum, not going easy on you.

So, full circle, in a way I genuinely did not see coming. The degree everyone joked about turned out to inspire the product spec... though, to be honest, we would not be here without all the amazing engineers I get to work with, including my cofounders @drcreatium and @huntingforunicorns

I'm in the comments next week when we launch.

If you got the coffee shop joke too, I'd love to hear what you ended up doing instead!!

Maria