Copy
Until You Find Yourself
Some
of the best advice I ever read was this:
Copy ~ Copy ~ Copy!
A
person can learn a lot from their heroes.
They are talented, have achieved a measure of success, perhaps, and
worthy of emulating. Copy them.
We learn to write by copying down the
alphabet. Musicians learn to play by
practicing scales. Painters learn to paint by reproducing masterpieces.
Look at this string of influencers for the
Beatles:
Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee
Lewis, Elvis.
This is the main idea – don’t look like
your heroes. SEE like your heroes.
Johnny Carson tried to be Jack Benny but
ended up being Johnny Carson.
David Letterman tried to copy Johnny Carson
but ended up as David Letterman.
Conan O’Brien tried to be David Letterman
but ended up being Conan O’Brien.
Don’t worry. You are incapable of being a perfect copy of
your role models. Therefore, your
failure to perfectly copy them is the genesis of where your own thing
lives. That is evolution.
The bottom line is this … copy until you
make it your own.
This is what is
on my mind today.
P Michael
Biggs
Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration
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