Hi, and welcome to technique six. Right for yourself first, this is from strategy seven attitude. Technique six is right for yourself first, for concern of making some of these cliche, I thought about leaving them out. And then I decided, you know, it's really important to include these because a beginning writer may not be aware of them, or maybe they need to hear it more. And so I decided to go ahead and incorporate a lot of these habits and attitudes that people may already know. But write for yourself first as another one of those you've probably heard, but it's easy to forget about it in practice.
And I'm not saying don't write for a specific audience. Don't correct it things that need to be corrected. Like I said, all things in context. every writer has a unique identity just as much as every human. Don't compare yourself to other riders as any form of comparison is not accurate or productive. And so this one overlaps With some of the other techniques that we've done, and the one that we just did before, but this one is just when you write, write for yourself first because there will be an authenticity that comes out in it.
You don't want your writing to have any expectation, or to seem contrived. You want it to come across as genuine, regardless of your style, regardless of the tone, regardless of the kind of piece. And when you write for yourself, in some sense, on a more fundamental level, your writing will come across as genuine and authentic, because everybody can spot a phony a mile away. And you know, I'm not accusing anybody being a phony, but everybody's done those things where they said yes to somebody or acted like they like something or somebody when they didn't. And there's just something sickening about that, that people don't like when they can see that something is contrived. And you probably feel that in yourself when you feel like you've had to do that.
We've all been in that situation, maybe playing politics or something. But in your writing, like I said, try to be authentic. That might be another way of putting it to write for yourself first. An example of that, if your college rival James Stewart has five books published and 65 articles in major magazines, who cares? I mean, great for her, you know, we've all probably had a friend or a rival or somebody we went to school with, or somebody on Facebook or somebody we know, that just seems to have everything together and everything's perfect. And no matter how good we are, they're 10 times better.
There's always going to be somebody better than us. But what is better? I mean, it really is something that we define ourselves. And so when that happens, that has nothing to do with your potential as a writer, and it takes nothing from you. It doesn't take anything away from your abilities, that unique, wonderful, unique uniqueness that we were talking about in the previous technique. Do what is true to and for you, persist and celebrate your gifts.
Revel in your gifts. I don't know Generally mean that in an arrogant way, but a lot of people, you know, they compare themselves to other people, or they forget about who they are. And it's important to really make sure that you stay true to yourself. And don't compare yourself to other people who cares what anybody else is doing. It's good to know. And it's good to congratulate other people and be supportive of other people.
And I believe that in my opinion that we should do that. But that doesn't mean that we downgrade ourselves or that we compare ourselves in any way. And so be true to yourself. First is the next strategy. The only person that you can write for is yourself. So write for yourself first, and that is technique six of strategy six and we are moving right along