The Four Golden Rules for Starting Anything

Hey Climbers. This week — Chat GPT’s Cringe Mountain, the four golden rules for starting something today, and taking your audience along for the journey.

The Four Golden Rules of Cringe Mountain

The only four rules you need to start today.

If you’re in a place where you want to start making content, but you’re letting the what-ifs stop you, here are the only four rules you need so you can start today.

Rule #1 Embrace The Cringe.

The only thing that separates the people who become good at something from the people who don’t is that the former are willing to climb Cringe Mountain. The only way you won’t succeed is if you stop climbing. Re-framing cringe as the natural, well-traveled path on the way to the Land Of Cool means you’ll find curiosity in the process and be able to keep climbing forever.

Rule #2 Just Show Up

In the beginning, your measurement for success shouldn’t be views, likes or follows. It’s whether you show up and do what you promised yourself you’d do. Some days you’ll be able to give it 10% and others you’ll have 100%. But in the starting stages, the mantra is: it doesn’t have to be good, it just has to be done.

Rule #3 It’s All Just Practice

Here’s a groundbreaking concept: every video you make for the rest of time is just practice. Even when you’re a pro, it’s just practice. This is how I trick myself into improving and take the pressure off the moment. One bad thing doesn’t mean I’m bad. One good thing doesn’t mean I’m good. It all just means I’m constantly learning.

Rule #4 It Gets To Be This Easy

Lately I’ve been asking myself; how can I embody ease? How can I strip and simplify? Yes, it may be hard to make a video each day if I wanna film 3 angles, get perfect lighting, do perfect editing and say exactly the right thing. But what if I took the pressure off it being perfect? Is it easier now? It gets to be as easy as I allow it to be.

Chat GPT’s Cringe Mountain 

This morning I was listening to this podcast with Sam Altman, the CEO of Chat GPT’s Open AI, when he said something that surprised me. He said he’s embarrassed by GPTs in their current state.

Embarrassed? He just designed and released one of the biggest technological advancements of this century, lauded by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet he thinks it’s cringe.

It reminded me that cringe is less about how others see our efforts and more about how close (or far) our efforts are to reaching our own big vision.

Do you have a big vision?

Creative inspo of the week

The fact this guy wrote a song a day on TikTok every day for 244 days before one of them blew up.

@simonrobertfrench

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If you’re ever stuck for a content series idea, tell your audience you’re going to try do something every day for (x) amount of days, or until (x) happens.

People will be invested and follow the journey.

Ok that’s all for now

Keep climbin!

Erica

P.s - If you’ve been enjoying Cringe Mountain, I’d really appreciate it if you could share it with a friend. The more climbers who sign up, the more the community grows, and the more people can conquer Cringe Mountain together.

Thank you ❤️