You can’t please them all. You’ve poured your heart into creating something. The response is pretty good but one negative comment has popped up\u00a0and now it’s all you can focus on. You start to question your work, you ask “Why don’t they like it?” and completely ignore the positive reaction to what you have achieved. Sound familiar? It’s a common problem for content creators and something that I used to constantly struggle with. Trying to please everyone. That was until I heard the story of how tv viewers reacted to Neil Armstrong walking on the moon in 1969.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve blogged before of my love for the James Altucher podcast<\/a>. It\u2019s a great show with a really solid\u00a0mix\u00a0of conversations ranging from marketing to meditation.\u00a0One of his most recent guests was the author Ryan Holiday<\/a> who was on publicising his wonderful new book Perennial Seller<\/a>, a book on the art of making and marketing work that lasts. During the conversation Holiday revealed an absolute gem when it comes to creating something new and coming to terms with the fact that you will never, ever please everyone.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the moon landing happened,\u201d Ryan told James, \u201cIt had 93% market share. That\u2019s incredible. \u201cBut think about it. That means 7% of the audience turned on the TV, saw Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon and said, \u2018oh, this is boring. I\u2019m going to change the channel.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Not everyone is going to like what you do. In fact there will always be someone who HATES what you do. Unfortunately\u00a0it\u2019s human nature to focus on the negative. You might get 50 kind social comments but it\u2019s the one negative post that you will pour all your energy into.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t.<\/p>\n No really, don’t.<\/p>\n Next time, pause, take a deep breath and remember that image of\u00a0Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. A man walking on the moon in 1969. Then think about the 7% who couldn\u2019t have cared less.<\/p>\n Smile. Move on. You will never please everyone, even if you are walking on the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can’t please them all. You’ve poured your heart into creating something. The response is pretty good but one negative comment has popped up\u00a0and now it’s all you can focus on. You start to question your work, you ask “Why don’t they like it?” and completely ignore the positive reaction to what you have achieved.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,59,44,42,3],"tags":[8,78,60,79,77],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ganapathy-kumar-306285-2-e1502206720671.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}