Each Friday during the World-Changing Writing Workshop, we’ll give you our favorite tidbit from the class; a teeny tiny tasty treat!
Amusingly, Truant‘s tiny tasty treat isn’t a Johnny original. He stole it from Derek Sivers. But it’s the concept that resonated the most with the class, so it’s the one you get.
Proud alienation.
When carving out a niche for yourself, don’t try to appeal to everyone, and don’t even say, “I guess it’s kinda sorta okay that I don’t appeal to everyone.”
Instead, proudly alienate everyone outside your niche. If you come across as proud of who you are and what you do, regardless of what others think, that’s a strong call-to-arms for your crowd.
Hell yeah, Johnny. We didn’t found the Let’s All Be Friends And Change The World Club. We founded the Freak Revolution, which is about as proudly alienating as you can get.
Do you wish you could change the world with your writing? Learn how with the World-Changing Writing Workshop! Pace, Kyeli, and 6 awesome guest speakers will teach you what you need to know about world-changing writing.
Do you wish you could change the world with your writing? Learn how with the World-Changing Writing Workshop! Pace, Kyeli, and 6 awesome guest speakers will teach you what you need to know about world-changing writing.
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Wait, what? So we won’t all be joining hands and singing ‘Kumbaya’?
How disappointing. ;-)
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LOL! I’ve got about ten blog posts’ worth to say about that, but the short version is that we’ve got two things going on. We’ve got the connection paradigm, which is the global shift that each of us is a small part of. Then we’ve got the Freak Revolution, which is our small (or maybe not-so-small) part of the global shift. We sometimes play fast and loose with which revolution we’re talking about at any given time, so it can be kind of confusing. (:
Hey, I needed to hear this. Thanks :)
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