Mountains of Arizona
Sunny 63 Degrees
9:42 a.m.
You would think the world would be thrown into chaos if everyone woke up speaking their own language. But in the world of the Incomparable Expert, that’s actually the goal.
Earlier this week I had a phone consultation with a designer. He does amazing work, but he is having a challenge communicating what he does to the world in a way that makes sense.
As we dug into the situation, it soon became clear that there’s really no way (yet) for him to talk about what he does so that prospective clients GET IT.
If he tries to describe himself with words that other people understand, by picking a title for himself that is well accepted, then his way of working, his extreme attention to detail, his over abundance of patience, and his premium fees are just a few of the things that don’t fit.
There’s no language (yet) that can communicate the proper FEELINGS and ideas about his work.
When no language exists, you invent it.
Doing this well is an art, by the way. But anyone can do art. It takes time, effort and focus. Oh, and you have to be willing to do it poorly at first. Actually STARTING is really the only requirement.
You did know how to do all of this as a child. And then the system did its best to beat it out of you.
This is creativity. And it pays on every level.
If you’re being treated like everyone else in your market, perhaps it’s because you haven’t given the world the language they need to fully understand your uniqueness and compensate you appropriately?
What’s an “Incomparable Expert?”
It didn’t exist until I made it up.
And now, service providers all across the world KNOW what that phrase means, plus a lot of other words I made up.
But the only place people speak this language is in my world. To everyone else, it’s gibberish.
You might think there’s nothing different enough about you or what you do to be able to set yourself apart from everyone else.
This is a program you’re feeling, not the truth. The system doesn’t train you to feel special, it trains you to feel like an inconsequential cog in a machine. And then it pushes you out into the “job” market to provide the proof for that illusion.
If you want to be unique, you have to look at who you are and what you do and figure out the proper way to communicate that.
If you CAN’T do that well, people will tend to call you a freak. Or you’ll just be invisible.
If you CAN do that well, people will tend to call you a genius.
You’re the same human being either way but the pay is quite different 🙂