People like to talk about themselves
People want to talk about themselves. It's really fun because that's an interview conclusion that I learned being in the broadcast media.
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People want to talk about themselves. It's really fun because that's an interview conclusion that I learned being in the broadcast media. But the reality is when people have something that is successful or something that they feel passionately about, or something that has received recognition that they're also proud of, people are excited to share that knowledge with other people.
So having something like an excitement session or blog post that talks about the idea of helping other people win is really leaning into this idea that if you ask somebody for knowledge, they're likely eager or willing to talk to you about it.
The protective nature of intellectual property is real. And somebody's not going to open up their blueprints to show you how they made an award winning design, necessarily. Maybe they will. But what they might do is say this is something that was really impactful to me when I started and allowed me to make this … or helped facilitate me making this, and if I pass that same information on to you, maybe you'll be successful.
I tend to buy in more to the idea that people are more excited about other people doing something similar to them than necessarily the opposite.
So, if I start a morning radio show that plays games, and somebody else starts a morning radio show that plays games, we're likely going to normalize or amplify the genre to the point where maybe it will hold more clout when it comes to people thinking that is real.
One of the biggest mistakes that I made was — somebody else in the media business told me in the mid 2000s, if not slightly earlier, closer to the change to the new millennium — that podcasts were going to be just as legitimate as radio someday. And I scoffed at that.
Maybe the discussion was more around blogs versus newspaper, but it was the same kind of concept is something that was new at the time, eventually becoming as legitimate if not more accepted than the thing that had been around for decades. I was skeptical, and it turns out I was wrong.
Being able to appreciate anything, even if it feels like competition that furthers the purpose of the thing that you want to put out there probably is still pretty valuable.