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LM: #345: Make your work stand on its own
There’s no end to details that might make your work a little better.
If you’re publishing videos, your camera, lighting, and mic could be better. There’s a dozen ways to cut and zoom, thousands of motion-graphics templates, and a million options for b-roll.
If you’re writing articles, there’s no limit to the hours you could spend finding just the right combo of animated GIFs, and there are just as many ways to break it up with headings and sub-headings. When you’re done, you can spend the rest of your day following related accounts and leaving comments so people can discover you.
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Or, lose the crutches. There’s no end to the bells and whistles you could add to make your work a little juicier, a little more noticeable.
But when you place constraints on yourself, such as that for now you’ll only talk to the camera or not use images or bullet-points, a couple things happen.
One, you have a lot more energy to focus on the core of the work that makes all the difference. Two, you have no choice but to build that core skill beyond what you would have bothered when it was propped up.
Yes, it’s harder, and that’s the point.
Aphorism: “Being able to hover calmly and objectively over our thoughts, feelings, and emotions (an ability I’ll call mindfulness…) and then take our time to respond allows the executive brain to inhibit, organize, and modulate the hardwired automatic reactions preprogrammed into the emotional brain.” —Bessel van der Kolk
Cool: Wise helps you get paid in different currencies.
Best,
David
P.S. When you focus on the core you can write 1,500 words on a 5-word tweet.
