Austin Kleon

Or some people are thinking or not many people are thinking and puts it into the words, right?

That's what we do.

And that's why people have been thinking the same things for thousands of years, but there needs to be new ways to say them.

And that's what an individual writer does so well.

So when you say that to me now, that is the best compliment I could think of.

When I was more young and callow, I'd be like, oh, I have special thoughts.

Now it's like, no, I don't really have that many special thoughts or what I have is I have a way of communicating that connects with people and gives them the words.

Right.

And that's that's what you do.

And that's what a writer does.

I think it's part of the hustle too.

You know, I have a, I tend to be a person who, because I come from the middle of a cornfield in Ohio, I like to, I'm Midwestern, so I like to downplay work, you know.

Oh, shucks.

You know, so that's part of it too.

But I know exactly what you mean.

And I am a person who actually devalues what I do a lot in my mind.

I have a lot of like self-talk where I'm like, hey, you know, you don't do that much.

And then my wife's like, you work all the time, you know?

I mean, people see the, it's funny, people see like the Friday newsletter and they're like, oh yeah, list of 10, no problem.

And I'm like, yeah, just do it for like 13 years every Friday for 13 years, you know, and like call me.