Harnessing The Power of One
Robert Paterson is musing about The Power of One. Seems his website will record 1,000,000 hits this summer. When he started blogging he had no idea that within five years, a million people would have hit the site.
So I posted a question in his comments, and I extend it to you. If you knew that in five years 1 million people would read what you have written, what would you do with that opportunity?
It might come as a surprise to some, but greatness is not predetermined. Great ideas do not emerge fully hatched, marketable and readily consumed by the ,ultitudes. They start as small thoughts, little experiements, testing the waters. Who knows whether the blog post you write today will lead to millions of readers checking in with you. You have an unprecedented historical opportunity to send a message to all those minds and hearts.
What would you want to say?
I’d have to agree, greatness is not predetermined, and we must all do our best to achieve that greatness.
Great post, I think that if you went back to the origins of all the big blogs you would be amazed at how they started, what they were writing about and how differently formed their ideas were.
It is a good thing to keep in mind for every aspiring writer, blogger or creative type.