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If You Don’t Care About Your Thing The MOST, No One Else Will Care At All.

January 31, 2021 Colin Theriot No Comments

“I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.” – John Lydon, Born Jan. 31, 1956.

John Lydon

John Lydon

It's a very important attitude to have toward your audience and your chosen topic as a writer.

Though most people would get this backwards. “You're here for the customer! The customer is always right! The customer is king!”

Maybe in retail or something, but even then, I'm dubious.

See in OUR line, enthusiasm is a pathogen. You need to be infected with it – deep enthusiasm for the topic you're the supposed expert in.

That's the trick…

It's NOT all about the audience/customer's enjoyment and pleasure and benefit.

You MUST be detectably delighted. Possibly even more excited than they are.

More excited about the topics you cover.
More excited about the tips your exchange with them.

Not because of the sale.
But because of their fulfillment.
You're more excited for their near future than they are.

And this only makes sense. Because they are going to follow you into an unfamiliar territory. They don't know what they don't know yet. But you know. You've been there.

Just like when you're trying to show someone your favorite movie that they've never seen. They're into it and willing to give it a shot with an open heart and mind because YOU'RE obviously convinced it's the best damn thing ever.

So even more so than it already is, your excitement becomes contagious to your reader.

Your passion infects them.

Because they have no frame of experience to know what emotions they should anticipate. So they follow your lead. You set the expectation of what it's like to do what you're advising them to do.

So make it look fun, and ESPECIALLY make sure you're excited for them to join in and experience it for themselves.

Can you dig it?

Be amused by your audience. That's why you got one, isn't it?

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