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You Don’t Need to Be Brilliant · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
• 0:14
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• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: We live in a culture that celebrates brilliance.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: Everywhere you look, people worship the best and the brightest among us.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: The internet, magazines, movies, social media, they're all obsessed with people who seem to have it all.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's why it's hard to feel motivated when you compare your own first draft to the latest million selling book by some celebrity author.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: There seems like such a deep chasm between you and them.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: How do you ever cross that chasm?
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: And how do you ever hope to compete with all these so-called brilliant authors out there?
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I want to tell you something.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's a question that doesn't actually matter.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: And there are three reasons why that question doesn't matter.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: First of all, you can't control other people's success.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: Your success really has nothing to do with their success.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you compare your success with their success and your mind, in reality, they're not connected at all.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: It may seem like they're connected, but they're really not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second, as they say, a rising tide lifts all ships.
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  SPEAKER_00: So whenever you see somebody else's brilliant book and it's selling a million copies, that's actually good for the publishing industry as a whole.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's great for all authors, it's great for readers, it's great for everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: So one person's success does not mean one person's failure.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, one author's success actually means success for the rest of us.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: So that's why we should be championing other people's books.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: Now, third and most important, the definition of brilliant, quote unquote, is not really up to you anyway.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: What one reader sees as brilliant, another reader sees as totally pointless.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: So with all this in mind, if you've ever struggled with comparison, you're not alone.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: Elizabeth Gilbert felt this also.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: She said, one day when I was agonizing over how utterly bad my writing felt, I realized that's actually not my problem.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: I only promised the universe that I would write.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: So I put my head down and sweated through it as per my vows.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's pretty good advice, and apparently it works since her mega best-selling book, Eat, Pray, Love, has sold millions upon millions of copies.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: So it turns out that you don't need to be brilliant after all.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: You just need to be brilliantly consistent.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: Here's today's challenge.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: Are you worried about being brilliant as an author, or are you just focused on doing the work and carving out your own path?
• 2:51
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• 3:02
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• 3:16
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• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.