Last night I felt this incredible surge of energy in my heart. It came immediately after recognizing that sometimes writing is difficult for me, but that I could become someone who’s easily able to write about even the most hard to articulate topics. It was this feeling that my writing could take me anywhere. That by developing my ability to write I could remove the barrier between my personal experience and the world.
After I hit this point of excitement, I thought of people like Bill Simmons (comedic sports writer and founder of grantland.com) who took their ability to write and capture an audience and eventually turned it into an empire. He once hosted Nate Silver (the guy who used big data to correctly predict who would win all 50 states in the 2012 US presidential election) on a podcast, and they talked about how strange it was to go from writing a column to being someone who’s on TV and all of a sudden has an amazing outlet to reach people. I see myself being able to do that; but instead of writing about sports in an entertaining way, or data in a useful way, I’m writing about our individual capacity to create the world around us. My writing could help you change your perspective on something you personally create, rather than something you merely observe.
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