Style can be imitated, but your style will only emerge after you've done lots and lots and lots of your own work.

That, again, is the bellwether.

That is actually why people hire you is for your style.

New slash, I think right now you might be thinking that if I could just do the right work

instead of enough work, everything would be better.

Here's the thing.

It's a little bit perverse, but we often start out doing everything we can to convince

ourselves that something besides a lot of hard work is somehow more important than actually doing the hard work.

Right? If you're a photographer, then you need a new lens to get the right shot or you need

to switch to a different writing app with better features to finish your novel or your play.

Or you can't launch your business or build your app until you've gotten the MBA.

So if you get that MBA, you'll of course know more intelligently

or intuitively how to monetize it. Here's the newsflash, the work before the work, it never ends.

For everyone who's succeeded in any of these pursuits, the old saying is true, right? A poor

craftsman blames his tools. Now tweaking is fine and trying to improve your process. That can be helpful.

But before that, how about you take a lot of photographs with that camera? How about you write a lot of

words? I don't care if it's with a pencil or with a coal from the fire. Write a lot of words,

if you have to. Begin to recognize that these impulses to do other things other

than the thing that you need to do to get the work done. Those are nothing but forms of

avoidance. It really boils down to the most simple thing, which is there are legitimate fears

that if we actually make the thing that we dream, that we will have to face

some truth, some true state of our skills and accept how much work or improvement or edits or

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