11 Reasons Not to Become Famous (or “A Few Lessons Learned Since 2007”)

Let's keep playing the popular cymbal. Like the glorious butterfly shines the wings. I don't envy their music and flowers. "

-The letter John Adams John Adams to his wife

"If I'm 30 years old and I'm not famous, shoot a bullet into my head."

I told this sentence to one of my close friends. At that time I was 28 years old.

Fortunately, unlike the darkest time in college, I never thought of suicide. But my feelings were real. Somehow I seemed to need fame. In retrospect, as a result of the painful experience of childhood, I was hoping that my love from outside (that is, many people) managed to cancel hatred from inside. Ta.

Fortunately, I had the opportunity to verify this hypothesis.

My first book, The 4-Hour WorkWeek, was published in 2007. The book was on the bes t-selling list of New York Times hardcover business and continued to sell for four years and four months. It was translated into about 40 languages ​​immediately, but everything did not work. Everything has changed.

Eventually, I was hit by the rain of a big and terrible event.

When you start this article, start with the 2010 example. I clearly remember the day I received a letter from a man who would call it "James". James often commented on my blog, and eventually we became a friend. He was a wonderful person and was very kind to other readers. I gave him advice, he succeeded in some business, and we have built a comfortable virtual communication. But on that day in 2010, I received an email from James for many years. James learned a lot from you and instructed you to pass this video. " I clicked on the attached file. James appeared on the screen. He was clearly upset, tightening his chin, making his face, and talking strange. He thanked me for helping him for years and explained that he had overcome a very dark time. Finally, he said he was very disappointed, but he had to end. And he deleted the video and committed suicide.

This experience has been ruining my mood for a long time.

Needless to say, I did not know that this was part of the Faus t-style trading to gain fame.

THE 30,000-FOOT VIEW

Now 2020. In 13 years, I learned about the promises and dangers of five books, more than 1, 000 blog posts, and nearly 500 million podcast downloads.

To be honest, I'm not very famous. Beyonce and Blood Pitt are really famous. They cannot go to the public anywhere in the world. I am a micro public with millions or tens of millions of viewers per month. Only Instagram has many audiences of this size. The new platform provides a new speed. For example, in Tiktok, people who have been unknown so far have won millions of subscribers in a few weeks.

What would happen if you suddenly won 1 million, 1 million, 1 million, and 1 million registrants?

I thought I knew it and it was sweet.

In this article, I think about various things. The most important thing is the answer to the question, "What can you expect if you win a popular vote?"

It also mentions incredible prices and benefits. I will also talk about terrible risks and negative.

I hope this post will help people better understand which stairs are leaning on which walls. Before aiming for the top over the years. Or, in a gear world like Tiktok, before all of the spirits from the bottle without thinking about everything.

If you are interested in creating a big audience to become rich and become famous, some warnings and recommendations will be accompanied. If you are interested in creating a big audience that you really care about, you will have more warnings.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, SOME VERY REAL BENEFITS

First, consider some positive aspects.

It can be easily asserted that working 4 hours a week and the following books following the following books were necessary elements:

• I am now meeting close friends, including Kevin Rose and Matt Marenweg. I hope these people will be my close brothers and sisters of my life. This triggered ...
• It can be invested in dozens of initial technical trading, and by the profits from there ...
• There are many scientific research (Johns Hopkins, UCSF, etc.), which aims to treat education (Donorschoose, Questbridge, etc.), chronic depression, pos t-traumatic stress disorders, and other "unresolved" mental illnesses.
• Launched a project focused on the above (eg, documentary "Journey of Compassion)

There is also such a side benefit, such as a lively restaurant table and product charity (it is often "free", but it turned out to be the most expensive).

Many of the pride in life can be difficult or not possible without many readers. I am very grateful to my readers and listeners in this regard.

However, it is difficult to leverage popularity.

First, what is the "glory" you need for you? If you talk directly, what is "success" and what is the stage? How can you be convinced that you can start with 0 to 100 % and actually change popularity into revenue? If you are 0 % or more, what is the confirmation of your strategy? If you have a project, if you don't like it, is there a way to freeze an unknown project?

When I was a student, the first founder of the hostel's neighbor was a famous Hollywood producer. He once told me. "Everyone knows your name and no one knows your face."

Let's quote Bill Murray's words:

Every time, try to explain the rich and celebrities to those who want to freeze: "Forget to freeze the rich first." Let's take a look, have the ability to do, this does not cover many of the tasks. In wealth, there are no special drawbacks or tax counts that your family needs your money. But when you become famous, you have a roun d-clock work. . In fact, it is thanks to the popularity that I escaped the fine of speeding. I stepped into the restaurant without a suit or tie. That's it, that's it.

But why can this be true? This is similar to a farce drama. Is it an exaggeration at the end?

In fact, one metaphor must be useful to understand what this "famous" sentence actually means.

THE TRIBE, THE VILLAGE, THE CITY — THIS IS IMPORTANT

This is the message I received in July 2007:

[Your sports) is actually hypocrisy and indicates that your book is professing other support. You are a serious example of Snow White Rider for our sons. shame on you. shame on you. mercy. And evil ... this is a battle of exclusive evil on the earth, and for those who are interested in selling power pressure to those who are looking for cruelty and seeing them. It is a battle. You are the evil that gained the universe and lost your soul.

What did I organize and what did I declare? Was it a response from a comment about how to defeat seals?

Absolutely not. It was a response to my blog post dedicated to DonorSchoooos. org, a non-profit that has been advising me for over a decade. The obvious goal? Funding small classes in city high schools. I inadvertently mentioned at the beginning that the founder and executive director of DonorSchoooos was my partner in high school wrestling. That's it.

The same reader, the "white rider," sent me dozens of messages with danger, graduating with the sentence "I will decide on Judgment Day."

Was it a threat of death? Did I have an obligation or an opportunity to do something in this regard? I didn't know, because I had never encountered anything similar. But one thing I knew was that it was very scary and completely out of the blue.

That week, I told a woman about this situation. She smiled and said, "Welcome to the party." She was receiving an average of one death threat and one sexy request/threat per week. At the time, our audiences were about the same volume.

This leads us to the topic of the volume of the audience and the metaphor of tribes, villages and big cities.

I want you to think about your private classes in the fifth grade. In my case, there were 20-30 boys. Was there any kid in the class who went completely off the rails? For most of you, the fastest, the kids looked absolutely decent. This is a select few.

Think back to your studies in the first year of junior high school. In my case, there was a certain number of kids, 100. Was there some kind of imbalance or imbalance with any of him? At least, we can call a certain number of people who were violent and excited me. There were fights. Some kids brought knives to high school. Rumor has it that some babies liked to torture animals. This secondary school was in a big city, my origin. What really changed? The size of the collection grew.

We are transferred to my life in July 2007, at least three months later with the publication of my one book.

In that short time, my blog's monthly readership has grown from a small group of friends (maybe 20-30 people) to the entire population of what is now Providence, Rize Province (180, 000-200, 000 people). Let's get this into perspective. What do we actually know about Providence? Here's a time when I've bolded a piece of Wikipedia:

Compared to the average domestic indicators, Providence has an average level of violence for 100, 000 population, and the level of property crimes is high. In 2010, 15 murders occurred, against 24 cases in 2009. In 2010, Providence had less crime than other similar cities. The population of Springfield, Massachusetts, is about 20, 000 than Providence, but in 2009, 15 murders, the same number as Providence, were recorded.

In short, you don't have to do bad things to receive death or rape. To receive, etc. I just need a lot of audience. Imagine you are a tribal leader or mayor.

According to the average indicators, you will receive a certain number of madness, scammer, blackmail, and possibility (or existing) murderers. If you are fair, it is noteworthy that there are geniuses and good Samarians in them. Of course, the subjects and content are important, but not as much as you think.

It is important to remember that the more population you have, the more opportunities and problems. Aidaho's small gate town may not have a Puritzer award winner, but no special army will be needed.

And 2020.

My monthly readers are larger than the area of ​​New York (NYC).

Grasp the New York that is interested in Google and click "News". In a sense, this is a dynamism that should be dealt with if your audience is so large, both in good and bad.

But let's say your subscriptions are 100 or 1, 000. How many of them can stop dragging at any time? And how many remaining people need to wake up from sleeping today and affirm someone? The answer would never be zero.

ON THE DARKER SIDE, SOME VERY REAL ISSUES

If you quote Henry David Toro's words, "the price of things is what I call my life, and the amount of things I have to do immediately or in the long term. (Wolden").

Based on this, let's look at some general impairments. Most of my friends with more than one million spectators have personal experiences in each category described in the future.

If many celebrities have been wondering why they'll sometimes disappear for many years, they often hope that the lower people will fade out or leave. It is. Unfortunately, once Google has a big mark, it is very difficult to return the toothpaste from the tube.

More than any other nobleman. There is a dragon here ...

One model for setting the tone: When I lived in the southern federal area, the worshipers on the East Coast basically sent a personal message hidden in my public post on Facebook. Because I judged that I was. He also believed that he moved to my house and wanted to work on me. He talked to his colleagues about this, but his colleagues were worried that he would basically go wrong, and told the General Manager who had contacted me. It was a very difficult moment, but I succeeded. The employee has already bought a weekly ticket to fly to the federal district in the afternoon to find me. I was interested in the FBI, his family intervened and used magic, he stopped taking medicine from mental illness. Again, this is an example of my book from 2008 to one year later. During this time, the first person I found me noticed at the entrance of my house. I just got a beautiful mansion in California Sanveille. Until this stage, I was renting a house.

I have a regular murder notice, but this is easy for public figures. In my expectations, no channel will be intimidated by the moon. Sometimes it is related to extortion (this will be described later), but usually comes from the mental level of unstable people. What are they angry with? Sometimes it responds to what I said or arranged. This is the most terrifying thing, and as a result, the metaphor of "tribal-village-city" is appropriate. People who instruct the danger of progress are usually possessed by mental illness and cannot arrange something to warn them. < SPAN> More than any other nobleman. There is a dragon here ...

One model for setting the tone: When I lived in the southern federal area, the worshipers on the East Coast basically sent a personal message hidden in my public post on Facebook. Because I judged that I was. He also believed that he moved to my house and wanted to work on me. He talked to his colleagues about this, but his colleagues were worried that he would basically go wrong, and told the General Manager who had contacted me. It was a very difficult moment, but I succeeded. The employee has already bought a weekly ticket to fly to the federal district in the afternoon to find me. I was interested in the FBI, his family intervened and used magic, he stopped taking medicine from mental illness. Again, this is an example of my book from 2008 to one year later. During this time, the first person I found me noticed at the entrance of my house. I just got a beautiful mansion in California Sanveille. Until this stage, I was renting a house.

I have a regular murder notice, but this is easy for public figures. In my expectations, no channel will be intimidated by the moon. Sometimes it is related to extortion (this will be described later), but usually comes from the mental level of unstable people. What are they angry with? Sometimes it responds to what I said or arranged. This is the most terrifying thing, and as a result, the metaphor of "tribal-village-city" is appropriate. People who instruct the danger of progress are usually possessed by mental illness and cannot arrange something to warn them. More than any other nobleman. There is a dragon here ...

One model for setting the tone: When I lived in the southern federal area, the worshipers on the East Coast basically sent a personal message hidden in my public post on Facebook. Because I judged that I was. He also believed that he moved to my house and wanted to work on me. He talked to his colleagues about this, but his colleagues were worried that he would basically go wrong, and told the General Manager who had contacted me. It was a very difficult moment, but I succeeded. The employee has already bought a weekly ticket to fly to the federal district in the afternoon to find me. I was interested in the FBI, his family intervened and used magic, he stopped taking medicine from mental illness. Again, this is an example of my book from 2008 to one year later. During this time, the first person I found me noticed at the entrance of my house. I just got a beautiful mansion in California Sanveille. Until this stage, I was renting a house.

I have a regular murder notice, but this is easy for public figures. In my expectations, no channel will be intimidated by the moon. Sometimes it is related to extortion (this will be described later), but usually comes from the mental level of unstable people. What are they angry with? Sometimes it responds to what I said or arranged. This is the most terrifying thing, and as a result, the metaphor of "tribal-village-city" is appropriate. People who instruct the danger of progress are usually possessed by mental illness and cannot arrange something to warn them.

Example: A few years ago, an email arrived from a strange number. Pay forcibly. I have no idea how I recognized my number, but the news continued endlessly with a vague expression. I connected and arranged the screen photos to understand who it was and what was going on. As I continued to exchange, I found that it was a woman (or someone who pretended to be her). Everyone will know it, taking into account the fact that you are actually performing with SXSW. " Fortunately, I had sufficient details for lawyers, personal investigators, and law enforcement. This basically means that I had a security unit that I had armed with SXSW for one year, and I was actually waiting for another shoe to fall. So ... after all, did you know who it was? Uncured. She was a middl e-aged mother living with her husband and two children in a countryside in Texas. I have never met her or talked.

A worshiper from New Mexico to two famous YouTuvers in Austin, Texas, who has moved from New Mexico to their house has been in a car, an absolute weapon. He intended to annihilate the last one. In the morning he broke into their house and chased from the room to the room with a 4 5-caliber weapon. They hid in the closet and reported to the National Taxation Bureau. Regarding the appropriate materials of the media, "They are Texas couples, wel l-known in YouTube, but I didn't think this could threaten their lives. For example, the pursuers from Albakaki are weapons. Fortunately, the culprit may have died, but the culprit was all different. There is no time to understand what is actually happening, and the suspicion tasks are dead through the dramas, which are often killed by the “disliked people” of the caricature. 。

Given the frequency of threatening me and the possibility of being really safe, I decided to allow mobile and secret guns. I wanted to avoid such a situation, and I wanted to prevent it, but this was the case (postscript: Thank you for the recommendation of the cartridge, Joko).

There is something like a minimal category of those who want to find you: (although too passionate) and the database of your own sweet people and your own evil people. I don't want to talk about this, but I understand, in this world, there are people who get a great pleasure from the pain or otherwise threatening.

If one of the groups finds or harm, if you don't have the ability to approach you, they often choose your family or the closest person.

If this is a criminal, he will find something that seems to be your weakness. However, as a result, I never say the name of my close friend or friend unless I am considered a public figure.

I will have the opportunity to get rid of the entire blog about this topic. Since an unpretentious model: In 2019, my team and I threatened. Basically, "I will pay X to me or create a DDO on your site." DDO is a technical attack on the website, and we decided not to answer because I do not doubt the fort of the automatic hostin g-infrastructure. The blackmails seemed to have not liked our silence and answered the dangers of explosions. I killed two people as a result of a scientific investigation, investigators, and law enforcement agencies, and occurred immediately after a continuous explosion in Austin. Terrorists and I will be happy to accept participation in public battles if I am right, but ... but ... all of them take a lot of energy. If you don't give X, I will declare you. " Fortunately, I have been consciously talking about vague topics and confessing unpleasant personal situations. This was created for this purpose to avoid temptation to increase human evaluations with a certain purity. Apart from this, this deprives the possibility of a large number of normal cartridges.

What would you imagine if you appear on the network in half cells? You can imagine that you have enough money to actually get a good ransom, including if you are not rich. Abduction of people is the whole industry, and there is a space where the master regularly handles data. In the United States, it is generally not blamed, but if you fly abroad, there is a certain thing in the nobles for you.

There are many wonderful writers and media officials with perfect ethics. Most of my close friends are the correspondents of this camp. On the other hand, there are many negligent artists because of the corrupt incentive created by the click bit "fas t-fashioned quality" digital game field.

Do you remember the metaphor of tribes-village-city "? Double the size of your motivated audience. Next, remember how many percent of this audience may get angry or take medicine. In accordance with this percentage, we connect people who make "gray" luggage and move forward to climb the stairs of success. And ultimately, they give all these people the media work-or as a contributor.

What a terrible outrage.

If you don't like the reaction like Twitter and the frustrating comments on Facebook, wait a moment until your first memo comes in your profile. For example, this is not the last note that draws your stoic philosophy.

If the notebook is full of irregular quotes and the test is corrected over the phone (UPS!), Then all this, including the same thing, will all be more motivated. Tip: Use an email for the previous test.

IN CONCLUSION

If you have a plausible audience or "platform", most of the people who try to coffee will ask a friend who has been consolidated about dating, and all the detail s-provide an inappropriate proposal for you. Therefore, the hidden motivation is exclusive. I took a long time to accept this, and I paid a lot of money for my polarity.

To be clear, I don't care about the service if they act in advance. What I can't stand is, for example, a fake trying to respond to someone's favor for a few months, and then said, "Oh, I have a fresh book on a specific week. I wanted to tell you to tell. " I had countless things like this, and I felt dirty and unpleasant.

These are one of the main reasons that I do not change the political figures of the "President", for example, the promise of not reading a new book published in 2020. These are one of the reasons that most of my close friends do not exist in the background of people's view.

All reasons mentioned in this article (and for almost everyone), if you like public jobs, you won't go to the footprints to send something to the place where you live. 。 If you break this rule, your name and linked address will be registered in the fastest company or local government's database. These mail lists are rented and used as a source of income, and all of them can easily access them. Do you remember the status of Austin's YouTuber in their personal home? Don't be them.

I was rampaging.

I try not to do so so that it doesn't happen. I have spent enough for myself and like my own life.

However, the above caused the excessive excitement I had unexpected. In fact, my family, friends, wife, and my parents and fluffy Molly supported me have led to success. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been new.

Will you hear all these warnings in advance? Does this change? I have not taken into account. Probably not. If you don't live in the data, you have the ability to take off, Bugatti actually offers someone, and he will complain about execution.

This technology reminds me of the parable of the blind and the elephant. This parable has been reported in several cultural spaces since at least 1, 000 BC. This is the situation when the Glory Group, who has never encountered an elephant and has never recognized it as an elephant, has the feeling that he is actually touching the elephant. Each elephant feels the various parts of the elephant's body, but only one side or fangs. Then, we sketch the elephant based on our limited experiments and the depiction that the elephant has fallen from a friend's friend. In one option, they begin to suspect that others may be fraudulent and fight fast. The morality of the story is due to the fact that people agree to unconditionally recognize the truth based on their limited personal skills, which ignores other people's narrow personal skills. It may not be honest at all.

Until 2007, I was a blind person.

Listen here and there (celebrities who decorated the cover! Awesome! It should be!)

Finally, now I can understand what I am like an elephant. It is not so important to grasp which part to grab in advance, and only after you put yourself in it, you have the opportunity to fully consider the scope of that technology.

For example, if I have learned, fame will not solve difficulties.

On the contrary, the fame will increase your indecision and exaggerate anxiety. This is all exactly the same as buying a fire extinguisher for your own suffering.

If you think you are actually familiar, I want you to work on yourself at first. At the same time, I want you to work on other things there. These books help me as "awareness" and "fundamental acceptance".

If you don't make this, the sand will pass through the finger and you will have a empty feeling. Like disappointment, you will have new problems that are now in this post.

I recommend reading Kevin Kelly's essay "1000 True Fans". Is it definitely better to get "fame" in front of 1, 000 people in front of 1, 000 people, rather than being attracted to the praise and encouragement of millions of people? ? i think so.

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Does this basically mean that no one needs to approach the dignified path or be tempted by a siren to the large crowd? I can't admit this. My plan is to pour light into a threat on a similar path.