After you write something popular, it's hard to write the next thing.
Everyone expects you to write something just as good, right? And you can’t.
Maybe you feel like you peaked in your writing ability for this audience, and you can't possibly live up to their expectations now. Maybe you don’t know why your audience liked this particular piece so much. You got lucky. And it feels hard to replicate luck.
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I went to the woods because it was a sunny, beautiful day and I was hoping to see colorful fall leaves. My partner and I visited Walden Pond for an afternoon, and decided to listen to the audiobook of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, as we were driving there and
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To be honest, I'm struggling to communicate as much as I would like this week. I'm still on the road, in the van with my partner, I've been offline for a good part of the week, and my brain is stressed and overwhelmed.
I did see this
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You are amazing. Yes, you. You care about people and about learning and you're interested in cool things. I mean that!
It's easier to see someone else's accomplishment than your own, generally.
Imposter syndrome is a really interesting thing. So many people feel like an imposter when
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