August 26th, 2022: Greetings from Kittery, Maine. I’m up here for the weekend catching up with some guy friends before heading out to Portugal for the month this week. New Pod with Tasshin Fogleman: On metta, loving-kindness, the monk path, being “very online,” wandering and more.
re: "you are never going to make it" — It's funny though how much of the narrative around "creators" (whatever that word might mean...) seems to be still centered around arbitrary, quantitative milestones.
Just this week I think I stumbled across at least 4 or 5 interviews of how people got to make millions of dollars in income. I don't relate.
I found myself thinking: "I don't care about making millions, that's too much work, give me interviews of people making 50k a year working a third of what they were working before, please".
We desperately do need alternative narratives, otherwise we will be stuck in same ones forever.
I also love David Kadavy’s work and listened to that podcast episode as well. I was struck at first with a feeling of discouragement, seeing someone who I considered as “making it” saying he thought otherwise!
Who am I, then, to consider this kind of work?
But, as always, the comparison to the default path’s measure of success is really where the dissonance resides.
Is it that he can’t pay his bills? Obviously not. Would I want to impact people with my writing and ideas and generate a comfortable enough income doing it? Yes.
re: "you are never going to make it" — It's funny though how much of the narrative around "creators" (whatever that word might mean...) seems to be still centered around arbitrary, quantitative milestones.
Just this week I think I stumbled across at least 4 or 5 interviews of how people got to make millions of dollars in income. I don't relate.
I found myself thinking: "I don't care about making millions, that's too much work, give me interviews of people making 50k a year working a third of what they were working before, please".
We desperately do need alternative narratives, otherwise we will be stuck in same ones forever.
I also love David Kadavy’s work and listened to that podcast episode as well. I was struck at first with a feeling of discouragement, seeing someone who I considered as “making it” saying he thought otherwise!
Who am I, then, to consider this kind of work?
But, as always, the comparison to the default path’s measure of success is really where the dissonance resides.
Is it that he can’t pay his bills? Obviously not. Would I want to impact people with my writing and ideas and generate a comfortable enough income doing it? Yes.