If you want to create something but feel it has already been done 1000 times, remember:
There is always room for quality.
If you want to create something but feel it has already been done 1000 times, remember: There is always room for quality.
One way to aim high is to try to make something that people will care about in a hundred years. Not because their opinions matter more than your contemporaries', but because something that still seems good in a hundred years is more likely to be genuinely good.
How to Do Great Work
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)
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An essential part of making perennial, lasting work is making sure that you’re pursuing the best of your ideas and that they are ideas that only you can have (otherwise, you’re dealing with a commodity and not a classic).
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
The more you create, the more powerful you become.
The more you consume, the more powerful others become.
“Nobody ignores what moves them. …
It means people might see you. But they don’t feel you. And if they don’t feel you, they forget you. …
You find the ONE thing only you can say. And you own it so hard that people have to talk about you. …
Here’s the test: If I take your name off your content… would people still know it’s you?”
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