Figure out what you wouldn’t mind being disliked for
Developing an interesting voice inevitably means pissing someone off.
“I don’t like the way you are” is actually a good thing to hear, according to
.Developing a style and a voice inevitably means pissing someone off. There are lots of people out there and they don’t all like the same things, so becoming less generic will give somebody something to hate about you.
Finding your voice means figuring out what you wouldn’t mind being disliked for. You have to find some way of being where, if someone came up to you and said, “I don’t like the way you are,” you would say, “That’s all right, I still think this is the right way to be."
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