Finding your voice

It isn’t hidden in some dark alleyway waiting to be discovered. It isn’t some damsel in distress waiting to be saved. No map to follow or formula to learn. There are no short cuts or life hacks to finding your voice.

It is developed, over a long period. It’s made when we take a job that we don’t want to do and it is built with many hours alone on a keyboard. It is created with shipping your work into the world, to be torn apart by critics. And it is assembled when you don’t feel like working today. You get a voice when you work in the trenches–beaten, dismissed and torn.

It is when you are invisible to the rest of the world, getting reps, when no one is watching that you “find” a voice.

Takes grit and guts. Most people don’t have what it takes to push through the dip. You are not most people.