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When you have some success, the feeling of being an imposter can be real. Who am I fooling? But when you create things that only you with your unique talents and experience can do then you are absolutely not an imposter. You are the ordained. It is your destiny to work on things that only you can do.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
The next level isn’t possible
It’s not clear that one can build a product that fulfills the promise to get someone a substantial following. Twitter and Facebook sort of can, in that you can pay them to advertise your content. But the Internet is a large and noisy place; marketing software doesn’t automatically generate attention. Once you get the attention, if your content isn’t compelling, software can’t force people to subscribe. In short, if you go high enough in the Needs Stack, you might run into something that a product cannot produce. (Or at least you can’t.)
Using the Needs Stack for Competitive Strategy
longform.asmartbear.com
Winning makes you an expert on Losing. You don’t ever get used to it, but you learn to control your reaction, until you have no reaction at all. You become less emotional about it, because the energy it takes to lose your mind over a loss is energy you need to redirect into Winning. And the more you hang on to that emotion, the harder it will be for you to move past it and the harder you’ll make it for everyone else to move past it. You understand it’s part of the process. You don’t have to like it, but you have to face it. It’s a necessary evil, and a reality of competition.
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