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Why Not You? · The Daily Writer

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: One of the most helpful perspectives we can adopt as writers is understanding that we don't have an objective view of reality.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is hard to hear because most of us naturally believe that we see things as they are.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: We assume that we can see ourselves and everyone else clearly as they are, and we trust that our perceptions about our giftedness and other people's talent is basically on target.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: But honestly, that's almost never the case.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: In truth, we tend to underestimate our own potential while overestimating everyone else's.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: In other words, we think everybody else deserves success while for some reason we don't.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: Not everybody sees the world this way, of course, but most writers do.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: When we see other people succeed, we believe they deserved it more, or they're probably more talented than we are.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: But the reality is that they're probably just worked harder or they had better connections or were more creative with their marketing.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: So the question is, why not you?
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: Why shouldn't you also get to experience this kind of success?
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: Is there any reason you shouldn't be just as successful as the next person?
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, let's face it, they are no more deserving than you are.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, none of us truly deserves anything in this life.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: We all start with nothing and we'll all exit this life, not being able to carry anything with us into the next one.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: Success in your writing doesn't have anything to do with what anybody deserves or doesn't deserve.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: Success comes as a result of actions that you take consistently over time.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, of course, some people are more connected, they have more resources, and so forth, but honestly, all that's just irrelevant.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: So don't ask why them.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, ask, why not me?
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: Success doesn't come to those who deserve it, it really comes to those who work for it.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: So my question to you is what are you willing to do to put the work in to bring you the success that you want?
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.