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Everything you must unlearn
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…