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You Master the Art of Writing When You Stop Thinking of Writing as Art
The world doesn’t need more art. It needs more personality.
The world craves artists.
Everyone is searching for viral social media posts. Folks love that dopamine hit more than ever.
It’s a world built on doing something to perfection or doing nothing at all.
We create five YouTube videos and give up because our channel wasn’t growing fast enough. We write LinkedIn posts hoping for likes and comments. We create newsletters on subjects we think will build us an audience.
That mindset is completely wrong.
Your work is defined by an outcome. Your work isn’t art as soon as you publish 37 articles.
Your work is the work. You put it out into the world and let the world decide how to interpret it.
Find Your Creative Lemonade
I’ve written hundreds of articles on Medium. I’ve published a weekly newsletter for a year on Substack. I’ve posted nearly a thousand times on LinkedIn.
Do I have 100k followers? Do I make millions? Is my work defined by others?
