The Most Important Thing Writers Can Learn From AI

How to stop panicking when you fall short of expectations

Image by Jason McBride — a collage created from licensed Canva images

When was your last great failure?

When was the last time you tried something new and fell far short of your goals — but you learned a ton?

If nothing comes to mind, you are in serious trouble.

If you want to be a successful writer, you have to collect a lot of failures. Successful writers reach their goals through a series of mistakes and missteps. Nobody gets it right all of the time.

Writing isn’t hard. However, being a successful writer is brutally tough — at least from the outside. You have to deal with rejection. Most of your work will underperform.

Many people give up on trying to make a living from their writing because success takes too long and requires too much.

But if you are looking for a shortcut to becoming a successful writer, I can help.

All you have to do is to become more like a robot.

How Machines Learn

We are living in the middle of a fantastic technological revolution. If you ever wondered how people dealt with the changes to society that the car, telegraph, and the telephone brought, think about how we…