Should everyone start a blog and/or podcast? Advice i enjoyed from Seth Godin

Since recording a podcast, I've been thinking about my experience that comes along with putting truthful content for others to hear or read. There is a forced reflection on my thoughts and my reaction to them. It has made me face my thought patterns, speech, attitude, and outlook on many different things, including my perspective of myself and the expression of my ideas.

Something that I heard recently communicated on the topic very well. Tim Ferris interviewed Seth Godin on Tim's podcast, and Seth advised everyone to start a daily blog or podcast. He said that even if it isn't under your real name, you should start one. He believes that this is important for personal growth.

Blog means writing something on your mind that anyone can see. He emphasized this is different from a private diary because those are only for you, and the problem there is you can start hiding, rather than putting your thoughts out for the world to see. A blog forces us to face the truth and reality as much as possible. "With a public blog there it is. Six weeks ago you said this, twelve weeks ago you said that."

He asks the questions - "Are you able every day to say one thing that's new to you? That you are willing to stand behind?"

He says a daily blog allows him to have a practice that resonates with the people he needs it to resonate with, that he can do forever, that leaves a trail behind. It allows the listener or reader the chance to go on a journey with him. It will enable the opportunity to feel closer to the author or speaker.

Seth says, "I don't need permission. I don't need to go out and promote it or use any analytics, and I don't allow comments, it's just, this is what I noticed today, and I thought I'd share it with you. If you're in public making predictions and noticing things, your life gets better, because you will find a discipline that can't help but benefit you."

I found the no comments part of this intriguing and insightful. If we allow comments then we are opening up other opinions that may not be useful to us, it will enable us to free up the time from reading unnecessary comments and the emotion that comes from them. I think if we ask the people we care about for honest and real feedback, it will be much more effective. I may change my thoughts on this, but I like it for now.

I was happy to hear Seth talk about this because I can relate to it, and I've been reading his books for years.

I hope these few thoughts on starting a blog helped communicate what I've been experiencing from this and that you can take something from it as well.

Thank you so much for listening/reading, and I'll talk to you very soon. Peace! ✌️

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