Escape Competition Through Authenticity
Creativity is an incredible way to differentiate you from other people who do the same thing that you do. No one can duplicate your creative mindset, your learnings, your experience.
“Escape competition through authenticity.” Basically, when you’re competing with people, it’s because you’re copying them.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
No one can compete with you on being you.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
‘Do not try to be the best. Be the only.’ It helps me believe in a positive-sum world—where my success does not hinge on the failure of others, and I am not in a rat-race.” — Nishant Jain
Caroline Cala Donofrio • The Best Advice I've Ever Heard
And so the more authentic you are to who you are, and what you love to do, the less competition you’re gonna have. So, you can escape competition through authenticity when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. And normally that would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet you can turn that into a career.