That's a sentence I just read from the book, Everyone is an Entrepreneur: Selling Economic Self-Determination in a Post-Soviet World by Gregory Diehl
It struck close to home. That's because it has been the story of my life.
I have no passion for "normal" things. That means everything I am interested in enough to put forth the effort to do is too "special" to be popular, with the result that (almost) no one wants it enough to pay for it.
I'm very grateful for the exceptions who do pay for it-- and if you get anything out of my writing you should thank them, as well.
Over the past several years I've tried to branch out and find something less "special" I can do that more people might want enough to pay for, but with very little success. I'll keep trying, because what else am I going to do?
Anyway, I do recommend the book I mentioned. It has inspired me to try some new things. It gives me new angles to see things from, and maybe it can help me find a way to deal with inflation a little better before the cats starve.
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I guess I want your particular manner of specialness. I was intrigued by the title of the book – "Everyone is an Entrepreneur" – but put off by the subtitle's reference to "a Post-Soviet World." If anything, it seems everyday life is becoming more Soviet everyday, with empty shelves, autocratic control of every aspect of our lives, and the like. But because you rarely steer me wrong, I explored the book description and sample pages, saw that he was referring not to the world in general but literally to the part of the world that used to be USSR, and ended up adding the book to my Kindle. If I'd seen the book in the wild, the subtitle would have made me dismiss it out of hand, but I trust your recommendation. Maybe there's not enough like me – for now – but I hope you keep on doing what you do.
ReplyDeleteIt really is a good book- in more ways than one. It's more fun to read than I would have thought it could be.
DeleteAnd I don't have any plans to stop what I'm doing.