Likes and reach don't measure what matters. Real value comes from work that resonates with both creator and audience, not from social media metrics. Impact is what counts, and understanding that difference took a long journey.
sometimes it's easy to look for external validation, like, oh, this is connecting, this got some likes, this got some reach, this got some comments, so I should talk more about that. It's like, well, maybe, but intrinsically, what is it that actually matters to you? And I think that, you know, Seth Godin talks a lot about work that matters and there's, you know, but work that matters has to be a collaboration. It has to matter to you. And it has to matter to the people that are connecting with the work. And it— and I don't think that we can measure mattering by the metrics of reach and likes and impressions and all the things that— the easy things that social media makes it easy to measure actually don't matter at all. What matters is impact. And it takes— for me, it took a long time to figure out what what the difference I could make was being called to make by, you know,
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