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The Only Way to Be a Failure

As creatives, we seem hardwired to remember every single time we failed in our younger days. Remember the time you forgot your lines in the school play? Or the time you drew a picture for the teacher and she hated it? Or that time you hit the wrong note in your music solo and everyone laughed? We carry this same hyper-sensitivity to failure into adulthood, especially with our writing. If we don’t have a certain number of blog subscribers, if we don’t exceed our expectations for book sales, or if we don’t live up to someone’s expectations, we view ourselves as a failure. But what if our ideas…

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