Jon Acuff

It doesn't tell you the full truth, which is you don't get to create, by the way.

You don't get to know the thrill of somebody coming up to you at an airport and going, your book changed my life.

So it solves problems.

It's just not a great solution.

In the same way that if you meet somebody sober, they'll go, yeah, alcohol solved a lot of my problems for a while.

But when I stopped drinking and I dealt with them, oh my gosh, I got real solutions.

I got a long-term solution.

So that's where my theory is.

It's a fine solution.

It might have served you for a time.

It's no longer a helpful solution because you're not doing those things that you know you're capable of.

Yeah.

It's numbing it.

It's delaying it.

It's dampening it.

It's quieting it for a period.

But it doesn't get better on its own.

That's the frustrating work about the work you and I do for people is people will go –

Well, hey, what's the shortcut?

Or they'll say, I have writers tell me all the time, everybody keeps telling me I need a platform to sell a book, but I don't need a platform, right?