Hannah 🪷 | comin’ soon

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[Hannah 🪷 | comin’ soon @BeckoningJoy]

If you struggle with your own self-worth, create.

Create for its own sake.

Imagine, design, build.

Leave your mark.

Creation is telling the world that you matter.

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A risk in your favour means the good outcome outweighs the bad, if you flip a coin.

Don’t risk maiming yourself for a 60% shot at looking cool.

But if you could invest $1,000 with an equal chance of losing or doubling it?

The more you take these risks, the less risky they are.

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Know this.

If you took every risk at least slightly in your favour, even with all the losses we fear so much, you’d be all but mathematically guaranteed to come out ahead.

The more such chances you take, the better the outcome must be.

This is how you ‘make your own luck’. 🍀

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@samsonnchiu Apple & Disney are 2 examples of what goes wrong when a brand is built by a visionary & taken over by profiteers who don’t understand the magic.

What they’re churning out is gross.

I’d be horrified if someone lesser used the name I built to sell whatever crap they could.

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@iMichaelDeVine The sake of my kids.

Else I feel like I’d have given up a long time ago, honestly.

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This is really awesome advice.

& fascinating examples.

I’ve got to go take some notes on the problems I keep coming back to.

You can only solve the problems you keep working on!

Feynman’s suggestion is brilliant — never heard that one before!

[Anirudh @VirtualAnirudh]

Here's how I accidentally rediscovered my content pillars with this one exercise.

And how you can use it if you're having trouble finding yours.

I stumbled onto this quote last week -

"You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind.

Every time you hear a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps.

Every once in a while there will be a hit,"

-- Richard Feynman

I was fascinated by this.

I sat down to write 12 questions that I keep coming back to in my life.

Get a notebook and pen. Do this exercise yourself.

1. What are your favorite questions?
2. What questions keep bothering you?
3. What questions keep coming up in your life?

Once you have your 12 questions, try to boil them down to concepts.

When I was done with this exercise, I realized the things I wrote down were my content pillars.

For me, all my questions had to do with
-- Entrepreneurship
-- Technology & Innovation
-- Art of Strategic Thinking

I didn't include physics and lifestyle design because while they are questions I'm interested in, I don't want to talk about them with other people.

They are personal problems.

A better alternative to traditional "niches". You can take those 3 pillars and expand on them in your tweets.

This way you'll end up wit your own niche of one. And it's a bottom-up organic approach.

Since you are interested in these questions, you can talk about them for hours and hours.

This is a much better way to finding what you should talk about on Twitter.

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@VirtualAnirudh This is why I don’t consider Twitter my ‘audience’.

I’m building something for me from the past, & I’m finding that audience elsewhere.

The people I connect with on Twitter have only a little overlap with those I hope to help.

This is a networking & collaboration space for me.

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@alematit 10.

I just like talking. 😆

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You know, I realise this is Money Twitter heresy, but…

I don’t mind social media platforms punishing high volumes of scheduled content, in order to promote real social engagement.

I don’t think it’s worth complaining about that goal. It’s why users are here in the first place.

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@WrongsToWrite Were there any expectations left to disappoint since the last one?

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@Topher_gala Not as we know it. There’s definitely going to be dramatic changes down the line.

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@iMichaelDeVine @itsEshana Dude, I love your positivity & your easy candour. You don’t look nervous, you look like you’re having a fun time, which is a really attractive vibe for video content.

Keep it up!

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@Topher_gala Cheers for these deep dives, they are so helpful!

Please keep sharing what you’re learning, you’re creating excellent resources & you’re going to get a lot of appreciation & respect for these.

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@IamChristelleD_ Part of the reason I want to do this is I want to get to be able to make my living working on a social enterprise.

I want to show my kids that it’s possible to build what you think needs to exist rather than merely work for whoever will help you pay your bills.

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@IamChristelleD_ I’m just starting out & trying to figure out how to build momentum while working a 9-5 AND not neglecting my two little ones.

One of my goals is to bring my income up to the point that I can afford to have at least one more before it’s too late, & be able to work more flexibly.

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@VirtualAnirudh It drives me crazy when people conflate introversion with shyness.

Shyness isn’t even a personality trait, in any fixed way.

But people stop believing they can or should overcome it when they decide it’s their personality type.

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@AtkWrites You have to make your peace with life.
Practice gratitude until you see the good that’s everywhere, however obscure.

Ultimately you’re going to appreciate it all, or suffer it all.

[Hannah 🪷 | comin’ soon @BeckoningJoy]

This is a really excellent breakdown of interviewing, podcasting, livestreaming technique.

I recognise a lot of these principles in my favourite interviewers & streamers.

Bookmarking this!

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@JoPsst That’s awesome.

Something I wanna try one day, kinda like the Zoom thing, is making a @gather_town space. Like a big drop in, drop out Zoom meeting, but visualised as an actual 2D environment, to give it more of a real hangout space feel.

[Hannah 🪷 | comin’ soon @BeckoningJoy]

Something I’ve been seriously thinking about is doing a kind of ‘coworking’ stream on Twitch, along the lines of the study-with-me format.

Essentially to get to chat & have a shared space while getting some work done.

So it’s not always one or the other, y’know?

Thoughts?

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@VirtualAnirudh @animanautideas Opportunity is abundant. We’re the ones who’re shy.

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@seasidemaya Funny how merciless we can be to ourselves.

There are so many reasons I’ve felt weak, worthless, hopeless.

But ask ‘Would I say that to someone else in the same position?’ & the answer is HECK NO. That reasoning is unfair & absurd.

Yet I have to keep reminding myself that.