2025-01-27 11:51
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Tags: writing contentcreation building
Reference
https://thedankoe.com/letters/how-to-escape-beginner-hell-as-a-creator/
Notes:
⭐️ What advanced creators do now isn’t what they did to grow in the first place.
When no one knows who you are or what you do (no authority) nothing you say will mean much to the reader. This is why you can’t just quote things and get any results.
Build authority
1. Solve more problems
80% of beginner content should start with a pain point.
Any idea I want to write about, be meticulous with the structure.
Start with a pain point the average person faces Using phrases like: “Most people” “If you struggle with” “The worst” “Be careful”
Problems capture attention and open a curiosity loop. Problems are the only way you make the rest of the post impactful.
Finish it with a list of steps, or my unique perspective/new insight.
2. Cover the most important ideas in extreme depth
There are going to be ideas in any niche audience that are always talked about/perform well. These are the heavy-hitting dillemas and pain points. The Evergreen content Perhaps I use the conjecture method to go out on a limb and work on the dillema’s.
These are the BIG problems everyone is always facing within a particular area.
- Trying to think better?
- Quick uses of my models
- Micro stories
3. Research what people did to grow
Study what content people created in order to grow. Look at their oldest posts and keep scrolling until you find some posts that did better than others.
Most people went through their own beginner hell, then had 1-2 moments where they gained a bunch of followers at once. Find those.
(James clear archives as he mentions his ultralearning journey. What did he do to get good? Where can I find it?)
Recognize that advice is mainly notes, what can apply to the letters? Is there a different focus for longer form?
Better content
Learn how to capture and keep attention.
https://thedankoe.com/letters/the-most-important-skill-of-the-21st-century-only-1-use-it/ 10 Ways to catch attention on feeds.
Novelty
If you are getting all of your content from Twitter while trying to grow on Twitter — you will probably end up with the same perspective as everyone else.
Use the things you learn in other areas of life to spin new perspectives on common problems.
(I suspect Physics, Biology, Natural sciences, and History would be the incredibly huge buckets to draw on for concept metaphors) Use what I read.
The real message
No one remembers what you say, they remember how you make them feel
Despite Peterson’s recent years or the direct things he says, I remember the sense I was able to make of things and the belief that he put in young men to be better at the time when I found him.
He doesn’t particularly matter, he’s merely the messenger of the life-changing message.
1.) The feelings that come from education The clarity from perspective, metaphors, and experiences in my life have helped me make sense of it. My job is to “make sense” for a specific group now. I’ll accomplish it by sharing how things make sense to me.
2.) The feelings that come from inspiration It’s different that motivation, you’re helping people connect the dots on their own to make decisions in their life. The idea will be is their own as you can’t co-erce, but when they finally make a change in behavior and you provided inspiration, they will attribute the feeling to you.
Training wheels
(Use this along with market research and copywriting search) I don’t have an idea problem, I have a structuring problem. I need a mould of which I can fill in with my writing and produce much more.
Swipe file
(I’ll skip this for a while for now, could help for notes formatting, but I also hate seeing the content as it throws me off. I just need structure not the real content.)