There are no blocks.
I have been quiet for the past few weeks. I read so much stuff in newsletters and on LinkedIn, and I often feel like I am reading the same stuff over and over again.
This makes me wonder what I can contribute that anyone could be interested in.
I don't think I have much to say that anyone could care about or that could provide some value (this is also why I focus so much on sharing interesting news – it is pretty easy to write a post around them, and they can be valuable to a lot of people).
Watching Rick Rubin in a great talk with Andrew Huberman, I realized I might have some kind of a block. Maybe his advice is worth a try:
What's the cause of the block?
The block is usually something like its either personal ("I'm not good enough"), it can be a confidence issue ("I don't have anything to say") or it could be a thinking about someone else ("nobody's going to like what I make").
Do you know what I'm saying?
So, it's either a self judgement or fear of outside judgment.
If you're making something with the freedom of "this is something I'm making for myself for now", that all it is.
It is a diary entry. Everything I make is a diary entry.
The beauty of a diary entry is I can write my diary entry and you can't tell me my diary entry wasn't good enough or that's not what I experienced.
Of course it's what I experienced: I'm writing a personal diary for myself and no one else can judge if it is my experience of my life.
Everything we make can be that: can be a personal reflection of who we are in that moment of time.
It doesn't have to be the greatest you could ever do.
It doesn't have to have any expectation that it's going to change the world.
It doesn't have to be this has to sell a certain number of copies for any reason.
It doesn't have any of those things at all.
All it is "I'm making this thing for me and I want to do it to the best of my ability and to where I feel good about it".
It is honest of where I'm at. And if you're living in this world of just being honest to where you're at, there's nothing blocking that.
There are no blocks.
The blocks are all based on dealing with a different force or a different perception that is made up.
You make up the story. You are living the story. I am in this block. Because I just cant do it.
The reason you can't do it is you are afraid some one else is not going to like it.
There are no blocks.
What do you think about this? How do you decide what is worthwhile to share?
Thanks
Jürgen
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