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Start a Revolution From Your Head and Change Your Life in the Next 12 Months

Everything you must unlearn

Eve Arnold
Practice in Public
4 min readJan 7, 2025

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I never thought I’d be sitting here.

After 4 years, I’m still writing, building, and loving it all. It’s the first time in my life that I’ve stuck at something long enough to make money from it.

And this year I feel like trying to make 1 if not 2 of the best newsletters on Substack. Sometimes I have to manage that ambition with reality.

But sometimes you just have to look fear right in the eye and say — why not me? And you learn to do that by transforming your mind, here’s the things that have helped me.

Learning what the starting line *actually* is

I’ve lost so many times I’ve literally lost count.

I was too scared to admit that in my mid-twenties. I didn’t want people to think I was stupid or destined for failure.

I remember when I launched my first book — 33 sales and then crickets. I was devastated. Word got out at work that I wrote a book and one day, some guy came up to me and said:

“How many book sales have you got?”

No small talk — just straight up. I brushed it off with the fact that it wasn’t doing too…

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Eve Arnold
Eve Arnold

Written by Eve Arnold

100K audience | Work 9-to-5 | Build and scale your career & digital product business: https://evearnoldwrites.substack.com

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