Recently I've been thinking a lot about fame and success, success because it's something I've been seeking forever and fame because it's something I've been rejecting forever, and the idea that these two are interlinked for someone like me has always been such a crazy thought to wrestle with.
I haven't just been thinking about these things out of the blue.
5th chakra governs the voice, literally and metaphorically. It is located in the neck. My tight neck is loosening, right at the time I go all in on my lifestyle, freestyling, creating, connecting, and trusting that the universe will have my back if I give it everything I have.
Is this a coincidence?
I woke up and peeked a youtube video of a place I've been to before. A nomadic village that I hitchhiked to last year. Checked my X and found I was followed by 3 influential people, one a rapper from Ghana, one a designer from Japan and one someone influential in the crypto space.
At the same time, I see some of my favorite artists collaborating more with people I'm directly connected to, and some big names in other fields interacting with friends on social media.
Two thoughts come to mind.
The first is that if you stick at something long enough and make an effort to interact with people you respect, surrounding yourself with people who get you and are working towards similar goals, at some point, it just becomes a waiting game.
Like if you make decent music and your friends make decent music, eventually someone gets a wave of attention, and the tides will raise all ships to some degree. When multiple people around you "make it", it won't be long before you do.
The second thought is about the decentralization of attention.
I never wanted fame because it feels unnatural to me. But this attention is different from fame. I think what I am witnessing is a flippening of sorts. Pop culture, the mainstream, is disintegrating. People are naturally moving towards communities. Some directly to local, some focusing on smaller creators or artists. As more and more people become content creators and artists, the attention spreads to more and more people.
The days of everyone following the same people is over. And that attention will flow to many many up and coming people doing interesting things, and those tides will raise all ships.
You can feel it right now at INLEO. As the crypto market sees more inflows, the excitement levels go up, and as we continue to associate with interesting projects doing interesting things and make new connections, our own success as a community draws nearer and nearer. At some point it will pop off.
We don't need to shoot for as many users as facebook right now. 10 million users would sustain a leo price far above where it is right now! Even 1 million would. I suspect a 10 million user Leo would lead to a $5-10 token. That's nuts!!!
Imagine if we build a marketplace and allowed more of the token to stay within the ecosystem. Imagine the kind of network effects all those new people will have.
In the same way I don't think I'll need to become world famous, or even niche specifically famous to the degree that some of my favorites are right now to feel success in the sense of having resources and being able to live the life I want. I believe they will become easier to reach though, and more and more of us will find ourselves doing things we never imagined we were capable of, as all of our ships rise together.
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