See like your heroes

I’ve been writing daily for around 600 days in a row now, and my purpose has always been the same — to gain better clarity of thought.

As I said very early in this process, my goal was to learn to see the world and think though ideas in a deeper and better way. I’m getting there, but it’ll take thousands more posts to get where I want to go (and even then, I won’t be “done”).

A quote in Austin Kleon’s excellent book “Steal Like An Artist” framed this in a great way:

“You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.”

I have no desire to look like people such as Seth Godin, Adam Grant, or Malcolm Gladwell. However, if I can develop an outlook that helps to see the world in a similar way as people like them, I’ll be thrilled with that outcome.