![]() ![]() This is often unspoken, but can drive a large amount of decision making of people wandering into the self-employed space. In my conversations with people around the globe, the biggest challenge many self-employed creators have is winning the approval of their parents. #2 The desire to prove yourself, especially to your parents That wasn’t a path I wanted to keep exploring. ![]() This exploration earned me the applause of right wing trolls and a twitter follow from Ann Coulter. However, I was looking at it from the perspective of a former consultant who is skeptical of how data is represented and didn’t realize I was walking into a political talking point. If you read the report and the data, you’d be doing some serious mental gymnastics to land on such a takeaway. I got a dose of this when I posted a Twitter thread exploring the “40% of Americans cant afford a $400 emergency bill” myth. This can be so blinding and exciting that you might try to chase that same feeling over and over again, even if its not the work you actually want to go deeper on. To the self-employed creator that dances in daily uncertainty and self-doubt, this can unleash a satisfying dopamine bomb of approval. This could come from a famous person promoting your stuff, getting published in a mainstream publication, economic success or or some piece of content going semi-viral for a few days. If you are able to consistently create content, explore topics you are genuinely interested in and develop some way to improve as you go, you will inevitably get some version of 15 minutes of internet fame. I think its still early for creating on the web. ![]()
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