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Your Creative Writing Will Struggle Forever If You’re Trying To Be An Expert

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Sven Vandenberghe
14 min readAug 20, 2024

Expertise is a wuzzle and a one-directional road

“Your chronicles will attract what you need”

Most people battle each other in the quest to be the greatest expert, but that’s merely an illusionary competition.

Expertise exists only until one new claims something else, better, or seemingly more interesting even without disclosing facts.

That’s today’s brutal world.

Let’s be honest, you’re chasing ghosts, and it’s killing you.

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‘’Find your supreme and absolute AUTHENTICITY and have the COURAGE to follow it no matter what.’’

-Robert E. Grant-

A better approach seems to step away from it entirely.

Know, how much energy you’ve put into becoming an expert in something, it’ll benefit you further down the road.

Nothing is ever lost.

Our subconscious mind registers everything and makes the information accessible when needed. Knowing this, and relying…

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Sven Vandenberghe
Sven Vandenberghe

Written by Sven Vandenberghe

The Wirting Philomath - Absorb, Read, Write, Sleep, Exercise, Thrive!

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