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How to Become Your Biggest Fan
Because we all need someone who believes in us
To create is a lonely job. Whether it’s writing or painting or sculpting, or coming up with ideas for your next product, or even just trying to figure out the best timing for scheduling your days and weeks — creation is lonely, it is happening inside your head. You are alone with it; you are alone with your thoughts and your struggles, and you are alone with your success too.
When you look at your life only judging your final product, your finished painting, your published article, your written book — you are missing out on a lot. Hitting publish and reaping its success takes a lot less time than the actual process, and the process gets a lot less credit than it deserves.
The world won’t see the whole process — they will only see the output, the success or failure of it. Mostly the success, as we are rarely tooting the horn for our failures, except when we have already overcome it and can show how it can be turned into success. But it’s not just the success that needs to be applauded. The process deserves just as much appreciation; the standing up from a failure merits even more; the grit, the persistence, the tears — they are the elements that make it all real.
