The Friday Chaser, Issue #77 — "You Are Novel"

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I've heard a lot of people with really great ideas talk themselves out of them because "someone else is already doing it". It may be writing a blog post, posting a video, creating a course, or adding a new service.

Honestly, I think that's a poor excuse.

Imagine if the Beatles never picked up their instruments because there were already musicians.

Or Michael Jordan never picked up a basketball because Kareem had already done it.

What if my favorite taco truck never opened because we already have Taco Bell 😱

In the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the author
(Stephen Covey) says that when you live in a world of scarcity, you
compete for available resources, even when there is an abundance of them.

There are very few truly novel ideas — but that doesn't mean we don't need your voice and perspective on ones that already exist. You bring a unique combination of skills, experience, perspective, and outlook that no one else does.

What you create is going to end up being the perfect solution for someone out there, and if you don't do it, you're depriving them from that opportunity.

Every idea you come up with might not be novel, but you are.