Have also been thinking of this in relation to being a creator on the internet. The things I don't like: posting every day, posting in real-time, fast jump cuts, tweaking the wording to go viral, growth hacking, 5-day email sequences
But I also think the internet has bifurcated enough (or diversified enough?) that there are many audiences…
Have also been thinking of this in relation to being a creator on the internet. The things I don't like: posting every day, posting in real-time, fast jump cuts, tweaking the wording to go viral, growth hacking, 5-day email sequences
But I also think the internet has bifurcated enough (or diversified enough?) that there are many audiences with different preferences. I believe that there's an audience that matches also my preferred cadence, slow cuts, more level-headed wording, email-when-needed. The internet and algorithms make it now possible to just do what feels natural, instead of doing everything for the sake of an ideal optimization
Spot on. The biggest challenge is if your not doing these things and still anchored to the idea that you want to maximize success and/or growth. It’s just really hard to pull off if not impossible. And so this is where the grinders are right. Their strategies raise the odds of success at mega success. In life however more people trick themselves into thinking they want that than actually want it.
The audience for “I was to maximize success” and push the limits of every aspect of my life > than more balanced approaches. That’s just the reality right now.
Far more creative and far more authentic! Which is hard to see if we're just following the grind herd mentality.
Totally agree that this requires letting go of some follower count goal / perception of success. I'm very weirdly ok with letting a bit of that go now because it feels less exhausting to not go against the grain
I think it can be more or less exhausting though. My attitude from the beginning: “how do I not burn out”. My answer was to go slower and follow my curiosity. Over the last 8 years I’ve seen 75%+ stop doing their creative stuff. It’s sort of shocking how many quit. I think you get a lot of survivors that thrive on discipline. And then a lot who end up not actually defining their strategy. I think going “with the grain” can actually be the most exhausting then in the sense you’re just copying people around you (eg “ship every week,” / “gotta use this platform etc”). Generally if you are searching for a unique path you need to experiment with weird and sometimes random strategies that may hve higher odds of succeeding for you.
I actually think you do this well. I’ve never seen someone do that digest / log you did. And then you decided to stop doing it. That meta approach(“try stuff”) will basically win and survive over time.
Aw thanks Paul. Have been learning to listen to my “nope, not feeling it” gut more, which now that I think about it makes sense to develop because there are 23480 tips out there in the internet but only 1-2 will work for any person
Have also been thinking of this in relation to being a creator on the internet. The things I don't like: posting every day, posting in real-time, fast jump cuts, tweaking the wording to go viral, growth hacking, 5-day email sequences
But I also think the internet has bifurcated enough (or diversified enough?) that there are many audiences with different preferences. I believe that there's an audience that matches also my preferred cadence, slow cuts, more level-headed wording, email-when-needed. The internet and algorithms make it now possible to just do what feels natural, instead of doing everything for the sake of an ideal optimization
Spot on. The biggest challenge is if your not doing these things and still anchored to the idea that you want to maximize success and/or growth. It’s just really hard to pull off if not impossible. And so this is where the grinders are right. Their strategies raise the odds of success at mega success. In life however more people trick themselves into thinking they want that than actually want it.
The audience for “I was to maximize success” and push the limits of every aspect of my life > than more balanced approaches. That’s just the reality right now.
But even given all that, true outlier success almost by definition requires far more creative approaches to life.
Far more creative and far more authentic! Which is hard to see if we're just following the grind herd mentality.
Totally agree that this requires letting go of some follower count goal / perception of success. I'm very weirdly ok with letting a bit of that go now because it feels less exhausting to not go against the grain
I think it can be more or less exhausting though. My attitude from the beginning: “how do I not burn out”. My answer was to go slower and follow my curiosity. Over the last 8 years I’ve seen 75%+ stop doing their creative stuff. It’s sort of shocking how many quit. I think you get a lot of survivors that thrive on discipline. And then a lot who end up not actually defining their strategy. I think going “with the grain” can actually be the most exhausting then in the sense you’re just copying people around you (eg “ship every week,” / “gotta use this platform etc”). Generally if you are searching for a unique path you need to experiment with weird and sometimes random strategies that may hve higher odds of succeeding for you.
I actually think you do this well. I’ve never seen someone do that digest / log you did. And then you decided to stop doing it. That meta approach(“try stuff”) will basically win and survive over time.
Aw thanks Paul. Have been learning to listen to my “nope, not feeling it” gut more, which now that I think about it makes sense to develop because there are 23480 tips out there in the internet but only 1-2 will work for any person