Writers, Don’t Be Afraid of Contradicting Yourself
Actually, contradicting yourself can be a good thing
Yesterday, a new reader that happened to like my articles enough to binge them pointed out something interesting — a really old article’s advice being diametrically opposite to a recent one.
Piqued, I dove through my posts and found more such instances of self-contradiction. After a brief pang of feeling like a hypocrite followed by some reflection, I realized there was nothing wrong with it.
Infact, I actually felt happy that I had contradicted myself.
The reason is simple — We are humans first and writers second. And humans change.
We Are Guinea Pigs
The way I see it — I’m a guinea pig in the grand experiment we call life. And whatever I share with my readers is data gleaned from this “experiment”.
Be it almost killing myself losing fat or going through rock-bottom self-esteem to start improving myself, the harsh “experiments” yielded harsher insights. And those are the exact lessons I want my readers to learn the easy way.
We’re all guinea pigs — even if you aren’t a self-improvement writer, as long as your articles contain even the…
