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MC's avatar

Fantastic piece.

Sometimes we forget this, so thanks for spelling it out:

"You might worry that you're not putting out your best work. The Beatles wrote 100s of songs and it is their top 10-20 songs that cemented them as the one of the greatest bands in the history of music."

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Atman's avatar

Yup! No one remembers the failures except you since you’ve lived them. The world only really cares about the outsized successes

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Dugu9's avatar

Love this. Something to keep in mind so that I excel at something other than consuming my algorithmic feed😉

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Atman's avatar

Haha yup, one way I think about it is trying to keep the creation / consumption ratio as high as possible. Ideally greater than 1.

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Anna Gibson's avatar

I highlighted 80 percent of this with Glasp. That's how useful this is. Thank you. <

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