I heard recently that Seth Godin has written over 5000 blog posts, and that he considers “only half of them worth reading.”
I tried to find a source for the 5000 tally, and came across this post from November 6, 2017: This is post 7,000.
Seven thousand blog posts. Well over two million words. Writing every. single. day.
I didn’t find a source of him saying only half his posts are worth reading. Whether or not he said it, the ratio is comforting: expect that half the ideas you produce are worth sharing. It removes the ludicrous, unrealistic pressure to produce incredible writing every day, doesn’t it?
My perfectionist self would like to know in advance which days are gonna produce the ideas worth sharing, and only show up on those days. I’d like to take the other days off.
But that’s not doing the work. To wend your way to ideas worth sharing, you start with ideas not worth sharing. You don’t hit the bullseye every day. You don’t have a great workout every time.
The work is not the glory and the impact – the work is showing up, every day.
