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Create > Consume

A friendly reminder.

Marcin Konkel
Dec 20, 2022
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This state is when I'm at my best when writing articles, photography, nurturing change or conversing with others, to name a few. Here's what it could do for you.👇🏼

What is creating - making new quality - thoughts, content, products, change.

What is consuming - reading, listening, watching others' content.

When we consume more than we create, our thoughts become blurry, and judgement becomes clouded with little to none of our own reflection.

What does 💡 > 🍽️ mean in practice:

  • leaving space for emergence, integrating the knowledge you have

  • making peace with being idle and enjoying it

  • creating new value for others by connecting the dots, getting yourself out there

  • starting to monetize your creativity - whether that's by pure satisfaction of giving, improving people's well-being or earning hard cash (while doing all of the above)

Why it's worth it?

→ quality of your thoughts increases

→ making discoveries and improving your or other's lives

→ quicker to connect the dots where you weren’t able before due to the habit of mental exercise

→ legacy - most people consume; when you create, you can leave your mark in the world

→ it brings a wealth of satisfaction and pure happiness; you feel connected

So stop frantically consuming everything around you (if that's what you do), extinguish your FOMO and start making a difference by actually doing the (hard) work. 

It's nice to have a breadth of theory, but it's even nicer to make a difference. 

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Subscriber extras:

If you’d like to deepen the topic, head on to Chase Jarvis’ podcast to get a handful of thoughts on the subject. I also recommend reading his book titled “Creative Calling” which, as no other, shares the gist of how to build up your creative habits.

To consume less and in a more digested format head to Mailbrew where you can combine all your subscriptions and get only one digest of your choice every now and then. I use it and am thinking of opening my lists to public. If that happens you’ll be the first one to know.

PS. As you probably noticed I changed the title of the Substack from "Don’t be agile” to “Marcin’s Newsletter”. The former was always a working title and, as it’s only me curating and writing to you, the latter makes much more sense.

🎈Share this post if you think it can help others start creating more and consuming less.

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