Sari Botton

You know, I think so often about that conversation I had with who I think was Stephen Glass, the phone psychic, when he was like, not everybody's going to get you and let go of the people who don't.

And that will make room for the people who do.

And I encounter that again and again.

As I become more me, as I put more of me into the world, this is something that is very interesting that I've been doing lately, and it's been paying off.

I've been paying attention to these younger writers who, they're millennial, maybe one is Gen Z, who have so much confidence.

They don't do this awful Gen X thing of self-deprecating for cred.

It is a pattern that I, you know, mimicked and had been doing like, oh, I'm the worst, you know, couldn't take a compliment.

And also like anytime I was going to share something of mine, you know, I would put it on Twitter and be like, I wrote a thing, you know, instead of like, I watched these younger women write.

They're like, I think this might be the best thing I've ever written.

Or, you know, look at me.

I'm shining now and it's my time.

And I'm like, what?

What?

And so I've been trying to.

pick up on that i think it's a better way to be i'm not going out there and being like i'm the best but i'm owning what i'm producing and i'm putting it out there proudly without then doing that gen x thing of self-deprecating for cred you know of of cutting myself down so that people won't think i'm stuck up like they said in my junior high you know

Oh, she's stuck up because she thinks she deserves to be in the play.

Oh, she's stuck up because she thinks she can sing.

You know, I'm getting those voices out of my head with the help of young millennials and older Gen Z writers.

I'm just watching them.

They're like, hey, read this thing I wrote.