Fascinating. I suppose we all change over time to some extent. I used to be a film maker, now I work in IT and write fiction in my spare time. People who knew me ten years ago probably thought I’d be making movies the rest of my life. I know I sure did.
Chris is very good at what he does now, so I guess we can be thankful he’s found his bliss. This sort of reminds me of the baseball player Ichiro Suzuki, who plays for the Seattle Mariners. People who have watched him in batting practice say he can hit homers all day long yet during games, he only gets base hits. But his position as lead off hitter in the line-up requires him to be on base. So that’s what he does. Maybe Chris realized that hitting homers was not where he was most likely to earn a paycheck and so he just gets on base now. Okay, I’m still way into baseball at the moment. Sorry.
Not entirely related, but just a side note: I used to be in an online writing group with Chris Brogan (we’re talking about 7 years ago). He was a phenomenal fiction writer. When I saw that he’d “made it” in his current non-fiction endeavors, I sent a message via his site asking if he still wrote fiction. I got a snarky response from someone and the answer was a definitive “no”. It was such a let down.
Fascinating. I suppose we all change over time to some extent. I used to be a film maker, now I work in IT and write fiction in my spare time. People who knew me ten years ago probably thought I’d be making movies the rest of my life. I know I sure did.
Chris is very good at what he does now, so I guess we can be thankful he’s found his bliss. This sort of reminds me of the baseball player Ichiro Suzuki, who plays for the Seattle Mariners. People who have watched him in batting practice say he can hit homers all day long yet during games, he only gets base hits. But his position as lead off hitter in the line-up requires him to be on base. So that’s what he does. Maybe Chris realized that hitting homers was not where he was most likely to earn a paycheck and so he just gets on base now. Okay, I’m still way into baseball at the moment. Sorry.
Not entirely related, but just a side note: I used to be in an online writing group with Chris Brogan (we’re talking about 7 years ago). He was a phenomenal fiction writer. When I saw that he’d “made it” in his current non-fiction endeavors, I sent a message via his site asking if he still wrote fiction. I got a snarky response from someone and the answer was a definitive “no”. It was such a let down.