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Speaker: to get over jealousy and the malicious feeling towards the other who always makes it feel like they're winning while you're stuck knee deep in the swamp.
Speaker: you can take perhaps the greatest piece of wisdom out of Chase Jarvis' creative calling. He writes about the skate culture. He grew up around, quote, nailing an ollie is essential for doing more advanced tricks. So if you can't learn it, you're stuck. Luckily for me, it was easy to ask for help in a community like that one. There's a sense that when one person succeeds, the whole community wins together, end quote.
Speaker: And so it shouldn't come as a surprise that maybe the best way to get over these toxic feelings is to feel buoyed by what is possible. That this isn't some zero -sum game. The freelance writer AC Shilton echoed this very sentiment, saying,
Speaker: And that, like, somebody else's success does not really take away from your own. Yes, there are, to some degree, limited bylines, but, you know, I should be using their success to push myself to be better, right? So that doesn't mean that I haven't silenced the occasional person on Twitter who is just winning at all things all the time and I just need a break.
Speaker: It isn't that somebody else had a win and you've lost. It should be, oh, that person had a win, so that means I can too, so long as I work hard and maybe have a little luck on my side.
Speaker: and it echoes back to that skate culture. If you learn a new trick, we all win. So if you get that coveted byline in the New Yorker, we win as a result. Good on ya friend, nice trick. Hey, thanks for listening. If you enjoyed this little thing, share it with a friend and be sure to subscribe to the show and also keep the conversation going on Twitter, at cnfpod.
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