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7 Insights From Bruce Lee That Will Improve You as a New Blogger
#3 could be the hardest but most beneficial
I’ve been writing for a living on and off since I was 21, but I’ve only started writing in the last few months.
For much of the previous 20-odd years, I was in PR and corporate communications. I wrote press releases, some features, in-house magazine articles, that kind of stuff.
It wasn’t writing though, not in an authentic way, not in a way that mattered. Well, not for me. It was usually to sell some product, promote some C-suiter, or pedal a load of feel-good messaging for an in-house rag that mostly went in the bin.
In the last two years, I’ve started writing for me and my business. I’m getting better, but I’ve got a long way to go to be as good as I would like to be. Here’s what I’ve learned from the pages of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee that will help me stay the course. I hope they help you too.
1. “Don’t court the approval or flattery of others.”
From an early age, our brain is hardwired to make sure we maintain the approval of others. It’s a survival mechanism encoded in our DNA. As young children, we learn not to lose the approval of our parents or our teachers.
