Over the weekend I got a negative comment on a youtube video. Because it was so hilariously written, it didn’t really trigger much the way it might have once. But because it was immediately followed by a much different, very positive comment, it made me think about the famous quote by Abraham-Hicks:
So here’s the situation:
I post a daily Tudor Minute on YouTube of what happened that day in Tudor history. Here are two comments from the exact same Tudor Minute. Notice the fact that there are two people with vastly different experiences of the exact same video:
So you see what I mean? Same video, two different interpretations. I’m still me.
If you try to change yourself to please everyone, you wind up pleasing no one, and you don’t have a strong voice. You be you. You stick to your voice. Some people will love it. Some people will hate it. And neither way has anything to do with you. At all.
Come back to this page as a reminder if you are ever dealing with negative comments or you come across a person who just isn’t vibing with your work. For every one of them, there are plenty of other people who will love your stuff. And anyway, you don’t need to have millions of fans in order to make a living from your art. You just need a couple thousand. There are 8 billion people on the planet. You only need a thousand or so. That’s it.