You Get Better at What You Do

I had a friend share that very few, including them, are built with the ability to be greatly rewarded for doing what they love. I disagree.

You get better at what you do. If you take a safer path, a more commercially viable path, that is what you will get good at.

If you want to take a more creative path, you have to take greater risk.

Those who “make it” are not innately unique. They’re the crazy ones. Crazy enough to keep doing the thing, even when they’re not great at it, not recognized or rewarded for it. Those who “succeed,” who become great, have ignited a fire within that they will not allow to be put out.

The difference is courage. Or maybe not. Maybe the difference is it mattering to them so much that they’re willing to “fail,” because the journey, the act, the effort, the creations are worthwhile regardless of when or if rewards arrive.

Wishing us all more courage.

Naser

P.S. I’ve started adapting these little weekly reflections into shorts