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Solitude, On Arrogance as an Unfair Advantage & Your Work as Survival

Solitude, On Arrogance as an Unfair Advantage & Your Work as Survival

📋Claudia's Digest #005

Claudia Stellner
September 24, 2023

Happy Sunday to everyone reading Claudia’s Digest.

I’m writing this about 22 hours after a brutal kickboxing training I had yesterday (when everyone on the sesh was like 5 years older than me, looks like it’s my destiny to always be the youngest person in the room lol).

Anyway, during that 90 min session, my wrists got completely destroyed, and although the struggle with typing right now is real (I couldn’t even make myself pancakes for breakfast)…

It’s nothing that could stop me from delivering this week’s issue.

Let’s take a dive.

(Reading time = 5 minutes)

Today, I was coming home from school at 9:30.
The sun was shining.
I was listening to a great podcast.
Thinking about my biz.
And…I was alone.
And when I imagined myself being there with friends I was like “nah”. I’ve grown.
It's not that I don't enjoy talking to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Claudia Stellner (@claudiastellner)
6:42 PM • Sep 18, 2023

There were times in my life where it was almost impossible for me to just “be alone”.

Whenever I’d unplug from the real world & spent some time just with myself, I’d have a sense of guilt & fear of missing out on something important that would then put me in a social disadvantage.

But after months of (unintentionally) self-discovery & growth in many directions, I’m starting to enjoy my “alone” time more and more.

Solitude alone is peace & power.

Enjoying solitutide is a privillage.

"Your relationships will rarely be healthier than your self-esteem.

If the time you spend alone is already enjoyable to some degree—that is, if you have a healthy internal monologue and generally feel good about yourself—then you will have a fairly high bar for the type of relationships you'll enter. But if you're unhappy with yourself, then you are more likely to put up with bad relationships because they may occasionally make you feel better than you do alone.

If you want a great relationship, the first thing you want is to be comfortable with yourself."

James Clear

1) Arrogance As An Unfair Advantage

At the end of this week, I started listening to an episode of The Danny Miranda Podcast with Tyler Denk, the founder of Beehiiv (the platform I’m using to send you this very newsletter, and what I believe is the best platform for newsletters out there ).

At the beginning of the episode, Danny asked Tyler what about his mindset made him succesful so early in life.

Tyler’s reply was clear:

It’s having the “arrogance” to come to an already saturated market (like the newsletter space) and promise people that you can do things better (and have the experience & data to back up your claims).

This is line went straight into my highlights, and here’s why:

I’m just getting into one of the most saturated business niches of 2020’s:

Copywriting.

And although I don’t have any killer positioning or a banger offer that would make me different from my competitors…

I know that tons of people do copywriting just to get the job done.

But I have the hunger to do the job better than everyone else.

Just for the sake of being in the best in the world.

I see copywriting as a craft & art, not just a “quick way” to get money.

Good attitude beats everything.

“Self-belief is immensely powerful. The most successful people I know believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion.”

Sam Altman

On a similar note:

“Inevitability says that there is no way this company is not going to exist and thrive. It says that the right order of things includes the company. The best entrepreneurs I’ve met tell their story as an inevitable outcome, and from this they have an unshakable conviction in what they are doing.”

Keith B Nowak

2) On Strategy vs Execution

Do I need to spend more time searching for better information or do I need to spend more time acting on the information I already have? Is the bottleneck strategy or execution?
— James Clear (@JamesClear)
2:00 PM • Sep 18, 2023

“Is the bottleneck strategy or execution?”

That’s the million-dollar question.

A lot of people tend to be hateful towards “learning too much and never executing” and always that you should prioritize action & to not get trapped in a ‘tutorial hell.’

Honestly, I don’t think of it as a dichotomy.

I’d never say that execution = good, learning = bad.

The only thing that can wrong isn’t choosing the incorrect phase, but choosing an incorrect time for the phase.

So answer the question above honestly.

3) On Being Insane

"It's important to do things that remind you you're not normal. Waking up, and running further than you've ever ran. Reading a book for 24 hours straight. Traveling alone. Saying hi to strangers. Reinventing yourself overnight." - Zach Pogrob

If you prefer staying at home & building your thing over getting drunk with your friends on a Friday night, don’t see it as a disability.

See it as a privillage.

Realize you’re an outlier, and take it with pride.

If even for one day, one of your ‘average’ friends was to exchange their body & mind with yours, they’d want it to last forever, while you’d be fighting to get back to your outlier self.

It’s a top 0.1% lifestyle. Enjoy it.

“The best entrepreneurs I’ve met view their work at elemental to their existence. Their visions and goals are as important to them as breathing. Viewing the world like this gives you superpowers. It pushes you to do things no one else will think of or try. It subsists you through the worst times imaginable. It makes you feel like you can tackle and accomplish anything. This isn’t a job or a project. This is survival.”

Keith B Nowak

Alright, that’s it for this week’s edition.

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Have a great week ahead.

Talk soon,

– Claudia

Things I Liked This Week

An interview with a guy who works with Sam Parr, Shaan Puri, Naval & a lot more → Click here
What makes for a great entrepreneur → Click here
The most powerful journaling prompts (you’ve probably haven’t heard of) → Click here
The best tweet I read this week → Click here

Bonus Link

🔗 https://tr.af/100