The Breads Roundup No. 100!!!
Ten Lessons I’ve Learned Plus a Lot of other stuff
We’re here. A completely arbitrary number that is only significant because of our reliance on base 10 systems of measurement. Damn it feels good!
I thought it would be fun and also heartwarmingly cliche to provide some lessons I’ve learned in my time curating and writing this email every week (just about) for the past two years. And just to be extra predictable with it, we’ll make it a scrumptious 10 takeaways. Usual linkies will be below this. All right here we go.
- Never, ever, ever take yourself too seriously. Take pride in what you are doing. Try and do things to the best of your ability. Always look for ways to improve. But, don’t ever treat failure or things not going exactly as planned as the end of the world. Treat them as learning experiences but don’t let them ruin your day.
- It’s ok to take a break sometimes. We don’t have to be producing all the time. We don’t have to be “on” all the time. We don’t have to be perfect. Some of you hustle culture fan boys out there will tell me that is a defeatist attitude and I’ll never succeed like that and to that I say, fuck a duck, have fun running your drop shipping business out of your mother’s basement while you post on IG about how hard you’re grinding.
- It’s ok not to have an opinion on everything. You don’t need to put out a PSA with your opinion on every last thing in the news. Sometimes it’s ok to just shut the fuck up and read about it and listen to experts in order to inform yourself before you open your mouth or get those fingers firing.
- To that note, admit when you don’t know something. You’ll be amazed how much you learn. When you’re having a conversation with someone and they throw out an author, or a place or an philosophical theory or a contestant from Ru Paul’s Drag Race to add context to what they’re saying, don’t just nod your head like a blithering idiot if you don’t know who/what it is they are talking about. I’m guilty of it too, all the time. We mostly don’t stop them to ask because we’re afraid the person we’re talking to will think we’re dumb. And if someone wants to think you’re dumb for being honest and wanting to learn more things well then you probably don’t want to keep talking to them. It’s brave to do. Try it more, you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the results.
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