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How to Become a Top 1% Writer (Without Freakish Talent)
Don’t listen to the naysayers, listen to me
I have a simple process you can use to become one of the best bloggers in the entire world.
Will you do it? Very unlikely.
Will my advice ring hollow if you don’t do the work? Yes, Kevin Bacon hollow.
Is it going to be harder for you to pull it off than it was for me? Hell yes.
Should you care? Hell no.
I say this to people all the time…blogging is a god awful way to make money. Don’t become a blogger because you think it’s cool. You will surely burn out.
Don’t jump on Medium because you think it’s cool either. You will quit.
Medium is like the s&p 500 — even if you didn’t buy during the crazy bull market, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t dollar cost average to get those 7 percent annual returns when that market cools off, or even buy and hold throughout recessions.
Has Medium jumped the shark? Doesn’t matter. You’ll understand why by the end of this article.
My buddy Niklas Göke accurately points out that you can’t be successful on Medium if you’re a brand new writer with no skills:
The number of writers with the…
