The Top 3 Reasons to Say “Screw it, This is a Crypto Channel Now!”
Unstick yourself by realizing you aren’t stuck in the first place
If you’re just starting out writing online, and I mean just starting out, the biggest challenge you face is knowing where to start.
You’ve been told you have to find a niche, that thing you and only you are good at writing about. But committing to a niche at this point is a risk. Every article you write on one subject is time spent not writing in another category.
and of course, you know, you just know, that the moment you pick a topic, it’ll end up being the other one that was the profitable one.
So of course you start clicking on articles that say “forget niches” or “everything you’ve been taught about niches is wrong” to prove to yourself that you don’t have to lock yourself down to one thing.
And that’s true, to an extent.
The fact is, your value as a writer is derived from your unique experiences. You can’t write about everything. Or you can try, but someone somewhere out there is better than you at it.
The thing is, there’s tons of things you can write about that represent your unique brand of “you-ness” and there’s a million things the public is willing to spend their time and subscription money on. And that sliver of ideas where the two circles overlap, that’s where you want to be.
“But wait!” You say. “That’s the whole problem! There’s too many possible starting points!”
Well fear not reader-slash-prospective-writer, the good news is you are currently languishing in obscurity!
How’s that a good thing? Well, think about it. Having no followers means there’s no one to get annoyed when you randomly decide to stop writing about story structure and jam out a half dozen articles explaining how Bitcoin works.
If your goal is to become a tempered steel sword of a writer, then the time to experiment is when you’re fresh out the fire of…not…being famous…
…bad metaphore. The point is when you’re new, you’re at your most flexible.
If you’re having trouble finding ideas, or your account is stalled with unfinished drafts, this is the time to get weird.
And so, here are the 3 reasons to just say “Screw it! This is a Crypto Channel Now!”
1. You get ideas by writing, not the other way around
If the thing holding you back is the feeling that you don't have enough to say to keep coming up with ideas, then the good news is there’s an infinite idea generator lying around for free.
It’s called writing an article.
You only need one idea to get going.
Believe me, once you get halfway through writing an article a weird thing happens. You lose the initial excitement for working on a new project, and your brain starts looking for excuses to procrastinate. And here’s the good part: one of the distracting ideas your brain comes up with is the idea that you should be working on something else.
Use this. The moment you get the thought “Eh, I wish I was writing this other article.” Jot down the idea.
And then go back and finish the original article (I feel like that should go without saying)
What this means though, is that you do need an idea to start with.
But that’s not a problem because we already established that you’re in an experimental phase of writing and can talk about anything you want online. And what better place to start than explaining something you just found out?
Think back to the last time you wanted to know something and the answer wasn’t readily available. You had to do the research yourself. Well, know you know something and you’re certain at least one person on the planet was interested in hearing it.
So why wouldn’t there be at least two?
If for example, you had been hearing your co-workers talking about Bitcoin all day and wanted to understand it yourself. And if that, hypothetically, had led you down a five-hour youtube rabbit hole. That would mean you had just learned at least a little bit about Bitcoin.
WHich since there’s no rules at this stage of the game, means there’s no reason to bust out an article explaining what you’ve learned and declare to the world that your account is a Crypto channel now.
2. Rejection provides more data than not publishing in the first place
If writing two words is twice as good as writing one, how much better is writing one compared to zero.
After all, you can’t divide by zero. This means that compared to not writing anything at all, randomly pivoting your account to talk about Cryptocurrencies is actually infinity times better of an idea.
as long as you don't mind people yelling at you that that’s not how math works.
Because those are the worst-case scenarios:
Either you get yelled at in the comments which people are actually reading your articles now (high five!). Or else no one reads your half-assed Bitcoin explainer which literally cannot be any worse than what you were gonna get writing nothing (which is no views).
The whole point of this exercise is that you don’t know where to start, and getting rejected just means now you have an answer (i.e. not that).
And heck, maybe it actually does get you some views. Ever think about that?
3. Teaching reveals what you still need to learn
It’s called the Feynman Method.
Richard Feynman, a real smart guy from what I know, got that way by not just reading stuff but by teaching it to his peers. The thing about our brains is that we’re really good at thinking we know everything there is to know about something, when in fact, we have more of a general outline with a bunch of hidden holes in it.
The only way to find those holes is to try and explain what you know to someone else.
This is the real reason to randomly start talking about how the Etherium Blockchain works. Teaching forces you to write out on paper what you actually know, which reveals the holes in what you only thought you knew.
And there’s benefit number three: Even if no one is listening, you at least get smarter in the process of trying to explain something. And as an added added bonus, if you discover a hole in your learning big enough, that probably means there’s enough content in there for another article.
Well, there you have it
So yeah, Screw it, this is a Crypto channel now! Tune in next week and I'll learn you up on concepts in digital ownership.
