Someone Else Already Wrote About This

One thing I find myself doing quite often is that I’ll sit down to write a blog post about something that interests me or that I’ve been thinking about, and before I even get through the first paragraph I find myself thinking: “There is no point in this. This has been written about hundreds of times before by people a lot smarter and more competent than me”. And then I’ll delete what little I’ve written and move on to something else. Why should anyone care what I have to say about insert topic here? I realize that as an elder millennial, and very Scandinavian person, that this is largely The Law of Jante rearing its ugly head. Throw a little imposter syndrome into the mix and you’ve got the perfect recipe for being permanently stuck at the starting line. This has been on my mind a lot lately. It took quite a bit of time for me to get comfortable with sharing my art online. I’m still struggling with it at times, but I usually don’t think too much about it. I’d like to eventually get to…