Hey, what's up, everybody? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show. The title of this micro show today is a little tongue in cheek. Born to share. Because no one is born knowing how to share when talking about specifically share your work. It is at best uncomfortable and at worst,

a lot worse. That said, if you strongly resist sharing and or promoting your work,

if this is you or if you've ever had this a glimmer of this, a hint, a fleeting feeling,

it's time to ask yourself, are you working on the right stuff?

A lot of people talk about sharing.

A lot of people talk about how it's important.

And then a lot of people also talk about how it's uncomfortable doing so.

That's natural.

But if it's a real blocker, I have to wonder if you're working on

the right stuff. See, back in graduate school, I tried every way I could to incorporate

the creativity that I was feeling in my bones, specifically, mostly at the time, photographic,

but I wanted to incorporate all this creativity

into my academic projects, into my writing specifically in graduate school. I was in graduate

school for philosophy and how to infuse very technical academic philosophical writing with

creativity was clearly a mystery and a struggle, right? Despite all the effort, I never wanted to share my work,

the creativity that I was doing with anyone in my circle of friends. Eventually, I realized that

this was because I wasn't actually excited about or proud of the work. I was doing what I could

to make the best of the situation, but I was, at that time,

I was not walking my path. I had different aspirations that I was ignoring. I was shelving my

creativity and writing very technical philosophical prose for graduate school and not able to infuse one with the other

or infuse rather specifically the creativity into the writing. I was pursuing art, I would say,

on the side with a very limited autonomy and it was better than not creating at all, but it was

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