How Creative People Succeed: The Unfair Truth

The unfair truth is that creative people are successful because they have luck on their side. This may seem unfair, but it's the truth. There are many successful creatives who attribute their success to luck and not skill or hard work alone. The article will talk about how you can position yourself better to be open to luck.

Creative success is not just about skill and hard work. It's about luck too.

In order to understand creative success, we need to look at some of the more successful creatives out there and see how they think their success came from luck rather than skill or hard work. The first example is David Letterman who was on top for 33 years with his late-night talk show "Late Night with David Letterman". He shares that when he started off as a TV writer, he never thought that one day he would have over 800 episodes under his belt while being able to do what he loved every night: making people laugh. His success came from him being in the right place for the right opportunity, not because of talent alone.

The second example in this article will be Danielle LaPorte, author and entrepreneur who successfully built her online business into an empire worth $50 million dollars while being able to work from anywhere she wants with no bosses telling her what to do and when as well as having complete control over how much money she takes home each year (which can range up to 15% of revenue). She shares that surprisingly enough luck was involved in her success rather than from hard work alone: "Luck helps you get lucky, but if you're putting in the constant hard work it allows you to be open to all the luck in the world".

Several years ago, I decided to do something different--well, different for me, at least. I let go of my cynicism and began reaching out to influential bloggers and authors that I had watched for some time but never talked with personally before. I wanted to find out what attributed to their success.

I felt shy about reaching out to them. I was naive and didn't know what would happen if they said no or wanted nothing to do with me. But luck was on my side.

I reached out to a few people and quickly found that they were not only willing to have conversations with me, but I also offered my skills, engaged with their clients and built a relationship with them.

Is shyness crippling or empowering? What are your thoughts on shyness as a creative person?

Don't shy away from the opportunity! That was the lesson I learned in order to progress.

So what do you need to do to get a seat at the table?

- Help as many people as possible.

- Find a gatekeeper who can help you get into the right spaces.

- Connect with people by reaching out to them, even if it's a rejection in order to learn more about how they did what they did so that I could do better myself.

I found all of these tactics on my own after researching creative success for my blog post. This is not an easy topic but I hope this helps take away some of the mystery behind creativity and success!

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