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The Jordan Harbinger Show
It was suggested that the book's message was counterintuitive, as it promoted creating for yourself first, not for an audience, and that it was a successful strategy for building a large audience.
So an audience of one, I gotta admit, if I'm creating something, I don't want an audience of one initially, right? That's a little depressing.
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It was suggested that the book's message was counterintuitive, as it promoted creating for yourself first, not for an audience, and that it was a successful strategy for building a large audience.
So an audience of one, I gotta admit, if I'm creating something, I don't want an audience of one initially, right? That's a little depressing.
I think that so often we try really hard to get somebody's attention and I think the question we should be asking instead of how do I get somebody's attention is how do I create something that's worthy of somebody's attention?
And I think really it's summed up well by something they said, you don't need to have your picture on the cover of magazines to make great music.
So much so that when in this documentary about the two members of Daft Punk, when they were being courted by executives at Virgin Records, the executive showed up to take them from the dinner in a limousine. And they said, we don't want to be seen getting into the limousine. We'll see you at the restaurant for dinner and they took the subway.
And I think that what has happened as a result of the fact that we're obsessed with outcomes is that something that should bring a great deal of the way, so I think that's a great deal of joy to our life, expressing our creativity, making things has ended up bringing a great deal of distress to our life.