instead of asking:
how can i be more like them?
ask:
how can i be more like me?
how many versions of me do i occupy? where do they live? how do they grow? what will they bloom into? what rituals do they practice? how do they... See more
Voice isn’t only about what you sound like and what you say; it’s also about how you deliver it. As Rebecca Solnit describes it, a writer’s voice is “something of the personality and the principles of the writer, where your humor and seriousness are located, what you believe in, why you write, who and what you write about, and who you write for.”
Just before he stepped down as CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos wrote his final shareholder letter. He closed it out with a section he titled, “Differentiation is Survival and the Universe Wants You to be Typical.”
He prefaced his own thoughts with a quote from The Blind Watchmaker, “if living things [don’t] work actively to... See more
why are you, someone with a story to tell, not expressing yourself courageously and authentically everywhere you go and attracting the exact people, conversations, and opportunities that are most aligned with your deepest and truest self?