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Stop Being Original, You Won’t Go Too Far That Way…
Copy your way to Confidence, Steal your way to Success.
5 min readJun 4, 2019
Confession Time:
I used get SUPER annoyed when I fail to see any originality out there.
1. Especially in storytelling art-forms
E.g In movies, TV series, novels…
They all seem to follow the same “winning” formula — a set story arc with overused characters.
It’s the same old same old SAME OLD…
2. Especially in the way people express themselves
I used to loathe trends.
Doesn’t matter what kind — clothes, language, music — I hated them all.
In my mind, trends were the hallmark of fickleness.
My blood boils when I can clearly see someone copying someone else.
They all look exactly the same.