At the age of 10, I had a seemingly glorious business idea. I envisioned a voice recorder that turns audio automatically into computer text.
Although I was clueless about how to build this product, I had the urge to share this idea with my father. Then the shock — my father confessed to me that an audio-to-text converter already had been invented.
The good news is that I had enough time to process that shock. The bad news is that, even 20 years later, the same phenomenon keeps happening to me:
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with motivational advice. But thanks to Facebook, Instagram & Co., I’ve got completely tired of it.
To give you a taste, here are some of my least favorites:
Masochism at its finest.
I’ve started my blog more than 1 year ago, and it’s still overwhelming.
There’s too much to do, and not enough time: writing content, increasing web traffic, networking with other bloggers, SEO, participating in social media.
With all these tasks in mind, it’s hard to get things done. It seems that I enter a circle without getting actual results.
Oftentimes, my day looks something like this:
You’re fed up with living an ordinary 9-to-5 life? You’ve finally decided to escape the rat race, conquer the world, and fulfill your destiny?
That’s great, but be prepared to face loneliness on your journey to success.
Because once you published that book, built that successful business or found your perfect life partner, one of the following things might happen:
I’m a big fan of figures. They help to explain complex issues in a simple manner. And that’s exactly what I want to do with this article — share my most recent insights about writing and systems with the help of figures.