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Why Not You? · 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
  SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Rider Starter Kit, visit DailyWriterLife.com.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: One of the most important truths you will ever learn as a human being is coming to grips with the idea that you don't have an objective view of reality.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is hard to hear because we're deluded into believing that we see things as they are.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: We assume that we can see ourselves and everybody else clearly.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: We trust that our perceptions about our level of talent and other people's talent is pretty much on target.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: But that's almost never the case.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: In truth, we tend to underestimate our own potential while overestimating everybody else's potential.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: In other words, we think everybody else deserves success while we don't deserve success.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Not everybody sees the world in this way, of course, but having talked to lots of writers over the course of my lifetime and being a writer myself, I think this is the way that most writers tend to look at the world.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: When we see other people succeed as writers, we believe they deserved it more, or they're probably more talented than we are.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: But the reality is that they probably just worked harder, they had better connections, or they were more creative and persistent with their marketing.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: So my question to you is, why not you?
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: Why shouldn't you also get to experience success?
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: Is there any reason that you shouldn't be just as successful as the next person?
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  SPEAKER_00: They're no more deserving than you are.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, none of us really deserves anything in this life.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: We all start with nothing and we will exit this life not being able to carry anything with us into the next realm.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I believe that success in your writing doesn't have anything to do with what anybody deserves or doesn't deserve.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: Success comes as a result of the actions that you consistently take over time.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: Now, yes, some people are more connected, some have more resources, and so forth, but all that is irrelevant because you have access to the same opportunities.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: So don't ask, why them?
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: Why are they successful?
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: Why am I not successful?
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, ask, why not me?
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Why shouldn't I be the one who experiences success also?
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Success doesn't come to people who quote unquote deserve it.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: Success comes to people who work for it.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: So here's my question for you today.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: Do you believe that you deserve to be just as successful as the next person?
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: If not, what's keeping you from that belief?
• 2:38
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• 2:44
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• 2:52
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• 2:59
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• 3:02
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• 3:04
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• 3:07
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• 3:17
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• 3:20
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• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's great, and I know it's going to help you in your book marketing.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and I'll see you tomorrow.