š¤ Creative Success Is Simple
But Only 1% Do It
Thereās a Simple Formula for Creative Success
So simple you probably wonāt believe it.
It guarantees creative success.
Itās this:
āStay on the pitch long enough, and you will eventually score a goal.ā
ā Darcus Beese, O.B.E.
Darcus is the former President and CEO of Island Records UK.
A fellow multipotentialite and ADHD-er.
His first job was an unpaid tea boy at Island Records.
He eventually got his big break, discovering Amy Winehouse.
Heās now a multi-millionaire.
What Darcus meant was this:
Creative success is simple.
You keep experimenting with projects until you get lucky and achieve success.
Iām not a multi-millionaire.
But I did make a very healthy seven figures in the music industry.
I managed over 20 artists in 28 years.
Most projects failed.
A handful were one-hit wonders.
And two artists sold millions of records and became superstars.
š¤ The Secret Sauce Isā¦.
There is no secret sauce.
Itās just a numbers game.
I had no idea which artists were destined for greatness
and which would end up in the bargain bin.
Creative success is simple because most people care more about not looking cringe
than fulfilling their creative and financial potential.
90% of creatively talented people never start.
9% start but quit when it gets tough.
And 1% keep being cringe until they eventually get lucky and succeed.
The real obstacle is the fear of being seen.
The fear of looking cringe.
Itās the Van Goghs.
The Franz Kafkas.
The Nikola Teslas.
The Emily Dickinsons of this world.
Creative geniuses who died penniless,
believing they were failures.
And yet their work continues to shape culture and society to this day.
They had the potential to live fulfilled,
financially successful lives with purpose and meaning.
But they were consumed by the fear of being seen.
So they kept their ideas to themselves.
How You Overcome the Fear of Being Seen
Itās simple (but not easy).
Itās exposure therapy.
Expose yourself to cringe repeatedly,
and the fear of cringe diminishes to insignificance.
The quickest and best way to do this
is the 30 videos in 30 days TikTok challenge
(and yes, you can block your friends and family ā I do).
This was my biggest fear.
By repeatedly facing it,
I rebuilt self-trust, creative courage, and resilience.
The Simple Truth
Nobody fears being seen when theyāre successful.
People only fear being seen failing.
They fear looking cringeā¦
Thatās the creative ego mental block
that has destroyed hundreds of millions of creative
and financial dreams.
We all experience fear.
We either avoid it with junk food dopamine
(doomscrolling, substances, buying shit we donāt need).
Or we move toward it with healthy dopamine
(curiosity, creativity, purpose).
Thatās the binary creative choice
that determines the course of our lives.
The Invitation
If you want to overcome your fear of being seen
so you can live a fulfilled, creative life
with purpose and financial security,
Join the 6-week live training cohort.
Reinvent your creative identity.
Get out of your own way.
Or get a full refund.
Doors close January 4th.
Join in the next 12 hours for $425
($10.12 per day).
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Hey, he wrote letters to his brother Theo about being misunderstood, irrelevant, and being rejected. He feared he wasn't good enough. Emily Dickinson had over 1,800 unpublished poems discovered on her death, which made her famous posthumously. Franz Kafka wanted his unpublished work burned after his death etc, etc.
Iām surprised you see Van Gogh et al as afraid of being seen. Thatās not my take at all. The world was too afraid to see them.